Did Jesus actually drink alcohol? A surprising investigation!

Was the wine Jesus drank at the Last Supper alcoholic or non-alcoholic? What about the wine he miraculously made at the wedding in Canaan? You're in for a surprise! Some modern traditions teach that drinking alcohol is a sin, and what better way to find out if this view is accurate than to investigate how Jesus handled alcohol? Jesus was known as a man of the people, so would he be hanging out at a brewery drinking with others if he were here today? This detective-style investigation into what the Bible actually says about Jesus' relationship with alcohol will be fascinating!

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[darealliljable]

Alcohol shouldn't be abused. As anything else.

[bearofchrist]

He did make wine, but it shouldn't be abused, and used in moderation not overboard.

[tubularbill]

People drank alcohol back then because they could not always trust the water supply

[Jaco]

I remember, as a child in the conservative western side of lower Michigan, a certain Evangelist came to our church who was stridently anti-alcohol. He bellowed: “Don’t tell me that my Lord and Savior, at the Wedding of Canaan, was a BARTENDER!!”

Not exactly a scholarly approach to the subject.

[KalonOrdona]

I've been thinking lately, tangentially, why unleavened bread but fermented (leavened) wine? I think it's 2 things: flesh vs spirit, and law vs grace. The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. The life of the flesh is in the blood.

[sidwhiting]

Good video! As a homebrewer, I cannot arrest the fermentation process without special, modern chemicals and/or chilling the wort (unfermented beer) down to below 45 degrees, which would have been exceeding difficult and expensive in ancient times. I just brewed up a batch on Saturday and pitched my yeast that evening. By Sunday morning, my carboy was foaming and the airlock bubbling merrily. It finished up yesterday (Tuesday), so from start to finish it was about 72 hours to go from 0% alcohol to it's final finishing point of about 5% (estimated via hydrometer readings).

Considering that the average Jewish resident of Palestine in the 1st Century could not afford the time to daily harvest grapes, crush them to make juice, and then transport them to cold storage (which only the wealthy would have), the far, far simpler explanation was that the average Jew drank fermented wine, not the "new wine" (unfermented) that some try to use as a contrivance to skirt the obvious. They simply didn't have the time or resources to constantly produce non-alcoholic wine.

The big brew-haha about getting drunk... an average person's liver will process 1 standard drink per hour, meaning that unless you exceed that amount, you'll never even begin to feel the effects. Top that up with eating at a wedding feast, along with the weaker nature of wine in the 1st Century AD, and odds are most of the wedding guests at Cana were probably feeling nothing more than mildly pleasant. They would not be roaring drunk. It would have been socially taboo and insulting to the host to act out boorishly or disobey God's laws against drunkeness. Therefore, we can only conclude the obvious: they were drinking alcoholic wine moderately and in a manner that did not disobey God's law or run afoul of customary socially acceptable behaviors.

[MrKuncoro]

so it is not a sin to drink alcohol according to bible?

[captainnolan]

How about Matthew 26:29 which says: "Mark my words—I will not drink wine again until the day I drink it new with you in my Father’s Kingdom.” - NLT. If he will not drink it AGAIN, it is implied that he has drunk wine before.

[ryanstivers]

For audience- Ask winemaker or chemist who understands the process and you’ll understand that it’s impossible for wine to be “grape juice” except for maybe for a day or two. You virtually couldn’t stop the fermentation process bc they didn’t have fridges or sulfites and whatnot that slows or stops fermentation process, the wine just fermented till it exhausted all the yeast and probably means it was pretty potent. Like a port wine

[rebeccahancock]

If you was Jesus and you was hanging on the cross, what would you say as you was being tortured? Would you say they knew not what they did in this America?

[walterrussell]

That’s funny a little bit like Woodstock

[NOBodYnose]

It was common practice to water wine down. They called Jesus a wine bibler witch ment he was was drinking wine that was not mixed with water

[DubYah]

What do you believe about the sabbath day

[KalonOrdona]

Do eat and drink.
Don't be a glutton or drunkard.
Good video!

[lindaloo]

Jesus + metaphor = or.... Creators + hidden truths = wide awake.

[aaronvu]

If you count wine as alcohol. Our beloved Jesus drank alcohol everyday.

[inevitablemeeting]

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[theoverthinker]

I would not agree that Jesus's wine had a remarkable amount of alcohol in it. If it did it would cause people to unintentionally become drunk. I doubt this would be something he would facilitate. I have no doubt that it did have alcohol in it though.

[mlubinda]

Jesus drank alcohol. The bible says so

[jim-pauladams]

I have read in the Bible that Jesus turned water into wine, but I have never read anything about Jesus drinking wine or any alcohol.