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P.1528 - §4 By noon
on Wednesday almost a thousand guests had arrived in Cana, more than four
times the number bidden to the wedding feast. It was a Jewish custom to
celebrate weddings on Wednesday, and the invitations had been sent abroad
for the wedding one month previously. In the forenoon and early afternoon
it appeared more like a public reception for Jesus than a wedding. Everybody
wanted to greet this near-famous Galilean, and he was most cordial to all,
young and old, Jew and gentile. And everybody rejoiced when Jesus consented
to lead the preliminary wedding procession. |