Passage John 2:9
A string of observations about Jesus in the Gospels, gathered as questions about how the Gospels present him. His first miracle in John 2 is turning water into wine at a wedding in Cana. He speaks sharply to the religious leaders in Matthew 16:4 and Matthew 23, calling them hypocrites, whitewashed tombs and a brood of vipers. He addresses his mother as “woman” in John 2:4, the same word he uses to the woman brought before him in John 8:10, and says in Luke 12:49-51 that he came to bring fire and division, not peace.
He turns away the man who calls him good in Matthew 19:16-17, saying that only God is good. His authority is something he was given (Matthew 28:18); he says he can do nothing on his own (John 5:30); he casts out demons by the finger of God (Luke 11:20); and before raising Lazarus he thanks the Father for hearing him, saying he speaks aloud so the crowd may believe (John 11:41-43). Peter calls him a man whom God attested by the miracles God did through him (Acts 2:22). Finally, in Matthew 26:7-11 he defends the woman who poured costly ointment on him against his disciples’ complaint that it should have gone to the poor.
Taken together, these sayings show a figure who speaks of his power as given and his words as the Father’s, which bears on how the Gospels understand his relation to God. (The New Testament text is not yet on this site.)
Source: see Credits and references (no. 19, p. 17).