I always thought Jesus was a bit rude to his mother at the wedding in Cana. And I wasn’t crazy about his reply to Martha either.
Jesus was a man, to think he never erred seems to me impossible.
Just little sins, you know, the kind that every person is guilty of at least at some point.
Even Jesus and even my sainted father, who really was a saint.
Thank you for saying so - I never did like that anecdote. Possibly because I myself, in my family, was always the one left to do the work. Later in life, one looks back and sees that the favored family members, who were charming and idle, were being set up to fail in life.
If Jesus sinned, which he didn’t, we would all be lost without hope of redemption because the sacrifice had to be without blemish.
Cana: the equivalent of “What am I gonna do with you?” To me that was always part of the subtle humor of the Bible—a loving remark from a son to his mother.
Martha: an essential lesson for us all. No amount of helping out at the church, doing the newsletter, etc. can make up for listening to the word of our Lord.