When the headwaiter tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from - though the servants who had drawn the water knew.

He called the groom and told him,

"Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now."

John 2:9-10 CSB

I once heard a lecture from Dallas Seminary on this passage, and almost in passing the professor said something like this:

The best wine. 

The best wine is aged. 

What the head waiter judged to be the best wine had just been created, moments before.

Just maybe Jesus created wine that was already aged.

He created it old.

Just maybe when the earth was created and populated with plants and animals it was created already aged.

Animals fully mature (several years old)

Adam & Eve were created as mature people it seems.

Trees created fully mature (decades or centuries old)

Rocks that were created old.

Stars that were created ancient.

Earth created already old.

If nothing else this exhibition of Jesus's creative authority was and is a sign of his divine nature. 

#gospelofJohn

#somethingtochewon