John 2:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

When they wanted wine, &c.— The wine beginning to fail;— υστερησαντος. But a small stock possibly was provided at first, as the persons were not in the highest circumstances; and that began to fail the sooner, as greater numbers of guests attended than were expected, probably on account of Jesus, whose fame began to spread abroad. His mother, provident for the young couple, and having conceived great expectations, as she had good grounds, of her wonderfulSon,whosemiraculousconceptionshecouldneverforget,—anymorethan the wonderful circumstances which attended his birth,—and whose entrance on his public ministry she now observed with joy, witnessed as it was by a voice from heaven, and by the testimony of the Baptist—in this situation of things his mother saith unto him, They have no wine; hinting, as our Saviour's answer shews, that he would afford some miraculous supply; and it is plain, that notwithstanding the rebuke she met with, yet she had still a view to this by her direction to the servants afterwards, John 2:5.