"On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding." (John 2:1-2) It is doubtful than John the Baptist would have been invited. He of the harsh garments of camel's hair and the strange diet of locusts and wild honey. (Although the word translated "locust" in the Gospels probably refers to the fruit of the carob tree.) John was a thundering prophet, austere and ascetic, far removed from the ordinary events of daily life. Some scholars believe that John had taken the vows of a "Nazirite" and was something of a monk. Others, that he belonged for a period of time to the community of "Essenes" down by the Dead Sea. Either way, he would have been removed from such ordinary events as a wedding i…