Look at verse 1 of John 2. We’re told that something is happening on the third day. John seems to be referring to the way weddings were done in those days, and still are in many places. They take place over many days. People have travelled a long way, so they get to stay for a while, and the festivities continue over many days.
It seems that the actual wedding feast for this wedding was taking place on the third day, but John didn’t need to mention that if he didn’t have a good reason to. The reason he mentions it is because of the importance of the third day in Scripture. This ties into what we’re saying in this point, because from the beginning of the Bible, what God shows us is that He is the one who provides. He is the one who does all the work. He is the one who gives life, even showing that to us on the third day of creation, when seed-bearing plants were created.
So, every seed that exists today exists because it is related to a seed formed in the Garden of Eden. And that simply preaches to us about the provision of God. He provides fruit to us, but it also speaks to something much deeper than that—the idea of the third day, which Paul takes up in 1 Corinthians 15. A seed placed in the ground speaks to us of death and resurrection, undoing creation.
Even after the third day of creation, this motif of the third day keeps coming up. We haven’t got time to get into all the examples now, but the third day—you can look at this in your Bibles later—is related to new creation and salvation. This is why John mentions it before Jesus turns water into wine. We’re about to see on display some of the new creation power of the Lord Jesus Christ.
