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I believe that more often than fulfilling a need, miracles done by Christ are symbolic of his mission in some way. In the case of the water to wine, there is something really beautiful happening here. These containers of water are the water pots used by Jews as part of their ritual cleaning. People would enter the feast and dip their dirty hands into this series of water pots one by one. Imagine, now, Jesus christ saying to the servant, "pull a cup full of this disgusting, filthy water that has had the hands of EVERY PERSON here in it, and give it to the guy in charge." I imagine that the servant would believe this would be a deadly insult. But instead, the water isn't just cleansed, it is improved. It is changed into the finest drink available. This, of course, is an allegory for Christ's mission. To take what was filthy, to cleanse it, and improve it - to transform it into something far better.