What does John 2:9 mean?
Wedding planners are not a modern invention. The master of the banquet, or chief servant, was the man responsible for overseeing the wedding arrangements. He probably checked all of food and wine before it was served to the guests. Verse 9 makes it clear that he was not aware of Jesus' involvement, and possibly never found out. It's all but certain that he knew the wine originally intended for the guests had been used up. This would explain part of his amazement in verse 10. Suddenly finding 120-plus gallons of wine would have been a pleasant surprise.The other amazing aspect of the wine was its quality. As the servant explains in verse 10, better wines were usually served first. Poorer wines were served once the guests had already had something to drink, and were less sensitive to the quality of the wine. But this wine was being served after all the other wine was gone.