Miracles and their Connections

In today's world, there are people who try to argue against the Bible in saying that Jesus was a fake.  Some say Jesus never performed miracles, or he never ascended into heaven, or he was never born.  If what these people say is true then everything we were ever taught has to be false, right?  Wrong, what these people say is completely false because, Jesus is actually real in everything he has ever done.  We know this because scripture tells us so.  No matter how much one may argue against it, the Bible can prove people wrong both in the Old and New Testaments.  Some of these connections can be found in parable of the "Wedding at Cana" and in the beginning of Genesis, as well as in Isaiah.  Jesus exists today in many ways in that he is everywhere we are.

In John 2, Jesus performs his first of many miracles at the "Wedding of Cana".  Before Jesus performs his first miracle, his mother Mary, tells him that there is no more wine, in which Jesus responds by calling her "woman".  Today calling one's mother woman is not proper, but back in his time, Jesus called her so as a sign of respect.  This could be derived from the creation story in Genesis, in which God made Adam and Eve, the first father and mother.  Jesus is the new Adam as well as Mary is the new Eve.  The ceremony continues to progress and yet there is no more wine for the guests to drink.  Jesus directs servants to take six jars and fill them up with water and then to take some to the steward (head master of the celebration).  Once given to the steward, he realizes he has drank wine.  This was Jesus' first miracle which may also be connected to Moses in the Old Testament when he turns the river into blood.  

In Isaiah 61-62, Isaiah refers to a bridegroom, who the bridegroom is would only make sense if it were Jesus.  These two chapters are about a man who will come and save everyone and everyone will rejoice.  At the wedding of Cana the term bridegroom is used again, here he is the man who actually marries a woman.  At this point of the parable is where people would get confused, because through out the Bible Jesus is referred to as the bridegroom.  To make it clear, Jesus may not be the actual groom for the wedding, but he is still the groom who is married to the church.  The Catholic Church is his bride which he saves along with his people by dying on the cross.  

Other connections I found would be in Genesis 1 and John 1, they both start off with "In the beginning...".  The water which Jesus turned into wine represents baptism the washing away of sins.  The water also represents the flood God sent with Noah.  God rid the world of evil and saved the good.  Simple connections such as these can be found throughout the Bible.  The New Testament needs the Old in order to be understood as well as the Old needs the New.  In order to find these connections one must want to understand scripture and not think of it just as a group of words.  Scripture is the word of God and must not be taken lightly.