Forget the Jewish high priests who banned the marzeah, with all its “occult” implications.35 And forget the buzzkill Pharisees, who later in the Gospels would call Jesus a “drunk” or oinopotes (οἰνοπότης).36 People were aching for their own little taste of that miraculous wine. And for the already-smashed wedding guests at Cana, where the only way for the Jesus of John’s Gospel to prove his divinity was to perform the “signature miracle” of Dionysus, that’s exactly what they got: 180 gallons’ worth. By
