Ephraim of Jericho
The Other Wedding-Feast
WHEN HE CAME again to Jericho I sought Him out and said to Him, "Master,
on the morrow my son will take a wife. I beg you come to the wedding-feast
and do us honor, even as you honored the wedding at Cana of Galilee."
And He answered, "It is true that I was once a guest at a wedding-feast,
but I shall not be a guest again. I am myself now the Bridegroom."
And I said, "I entreat you, Master, come to the wedding-feast of my son."
And He smiled as though He would rebuke me, and said, "Why do you entreat
me? Have you not wine enough?"
And I said, "My jugs are full, Master; yet I beseech you, come to my son's
wedding-feast."
Then He said, "Who knows? I may come, I may surely come, if your heart
is an altar in your temple."
Upon the morrow my son was married, but Jesus came not to the wedding-feast.
And though we had many guests, I felt that no one had come.
In very truth, I myself who welcomed the guests, was not there.
Perhaps my heart had not been an altar when I invited Him. Perhaps I desired
another miracle.
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