Best For Last

Last night I was watching The Colbert Report and had a good chuckle. Senator John McCain was Stephen Colbert’s guest and was invited to discuss his new book. As you may know, Colbert will soon replace David Letterman as the host of the long running late Show.

Colbert: Thanks for coming here for one of my last twelve shows.

John McCain: You’re scraping the bottom of the barrel?

Colbert: No, we have saved the best for last, to paraphrase the Gospel.

McCain: What chapter of the Bible is that?

Colbert: It’s the marriage at Cana when Jesus turns the water into wine. The wine that he makes out of the water is passed around to the guests, and they say “thou hast saved the best for last.” I thought, ‘How are you going to appeal to Christian conservatives if you don’t know your Gospel,’ sir?

Watch it for yourself. http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/3h1qqa/john-mccain

From John 2:7-10 (NRSV):

Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.” So they took it. When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.”