This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
Compared with the first great miracle wrought by Moses, in which water was changed into blood, this sign resembles that one, as should have been expected of type and antitype; but it also contrasts dramatically.  Moses' sign impoverished; this one enriched.  This was a source of joy, that one a source of revulsion and disgust.  That changed water into something worse; this changed water into something better.  The superiority of Christ over Moses, so starkly visible here, was to appear in all the miracles that followed.  Moses' miracle was a curse; this was a blessing.  As Richard Trench noted: