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Saturday, July 17, 2010

The water saw her master and blush”

While Lord Byron was studying in a missionary school, the teacher asked the students to write an essay of the first miracle of Jesus.
The first miracle is as follows:
On the third day, a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no more wine."
"Dear woman, why do you involve Me?" Jesus replied, "My time has not yet come."
His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever He tells you”.
Nearby, stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
Jesus said to the servants "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled them to the brim.
Then He told them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the master of the banquet."
They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."
This, the first of His miraculous signs, Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples put their faith in Him.

All the students in the class were writing hastily except Byron. The teacher came near by and asked why he was sitting still. Byron replied “why should I need this much paper and time to write this miracle which could be expressed just in a single line,
“The water saw her master and blush”.

2 comments:

  1. The same story was narrated by my school teacher, and even he said Byron. However, I think this story is fictitious. Also, if you do a google search on the sentence 'The water saw its master and blushed' it attributes this to Alexander Pope and not Byron.

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    1. it is also attributed to John Keats. I don't know whether it is also attributed to Shakespeare

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