John 2 · a question people ask
Jesus answers his mother, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come" (2:4). Was he turning her down?
Here is what John tells, in order. His mother said to him, "They have no wine" (2:3). "Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”" (2:4). "His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”" (2:5). Then "Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.”" (2:7). John doesn't explain Jesus's words to her, or say what she expected him to do. In John's Gospel Jesus speaks to his mother twice, and both times he begins "Woman": here, and at the cross, "Woman, behold, your son!" (19:26). His hour comes up again: "no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come" (7:30), and "no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come" (8:20). These notes add nothing from outside the text to the word Woman, and don't say what his answer meant beyond the words.
The verses
“When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.” Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece. Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim.”
“Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!””
“They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.”
“Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.”