Water into Wine

            In John 2:1-11 the story unfolds of how Jesus turns water into wine to allow a wedding party to continue.  The phrase “turning water into wine” is most frequently used to display the altering of something plain or of lesser quality into something glorious.  Chris August, in the song “water into wine,” displays how his life had been in shambles and how his love life had been poor, this being the water, and how the woman in his life had taken this and made it al better, his life now being like the wine. Royston Allen wrote the poem “love turns mere water into wine.  The poem speaks of a bitter world made sweet by love.  A short film 2004 titled water into wine used the allusion in a similar way.  It showed a great snowboarder being put into jail, and upon being released, reforms his ways and becomes a better person.  The allusion is also sometimes used simply because of wine’s properties. An advertisement by the French detergent company Ariel showed wine writing out the words “and the wine transformed into water” (a rough translation) out on a bedspread. Using the allusion while showing how the detergent can get wine out of whit material. The allusion is used in a happier way than some of the more grim bible references and is commonly used in association love.