It's difficult if you don't apply critical thinking fully to both texts.
Mark and John are two very different books, even though they one of the four Gospels in the Bible.
Mark's account is meant to be sequential, so you go from the baptism straight into other events, including the gathering of apostles and temptation. During that time, John the Baptist was in prison. In fact, it clearly states that in Mark 1:14 "Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,..."
The book of Mark is meant to be a compressed rundown of events that took place with Jesus as the focal point. If you look at the Synoptic Gospels, there are 28 chapters in Matthew, 24 in Luke, but only 16 in Mark.
John isn't a Synoptic Gospel, and the focal point surrounds Christ, but differently. It focuses more on things like miracles and it doesn't even mention the temptation, as well as various other events, but it was intended that way.
So back to understanding what is going on in John compared to Luke. The event isn't being recalled as it's taking place. It's John the Baptist testifying of that event afterwards. When you get to the Marriage Feast in Cana, it's referring to a separate event that took place afterwards. The difficult part is when you get to the mention of the third day, because there are two distinct possibilities. It could either be a continuation of events already mentioned, but it's also possible it's specific to the marriage feast, because a traditional marriage ceremony lasted around 5-7 days, so it could be the third day of that ceremony.
Mark and John are two very different books, even though they one of the four Gospels in the Bible.
Mark's account is meant to be sequential, so you go from the baptism straight into other events, including the gathering of apostles and temptation. During that time, John the Baptist was in prison. In fact, it clearly states that in Mark 1:14 "Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,..."
The book of Mark is meant to be a compressed rundown of events that took place with Jesus as the focal point. If you look at the Synoptic Gospels, there are 28 chapters in Matthew, 24 in Luke, but only 16 in Mark.
John isn't a Synoptic Gospel, and the focal point surrounds Christ, but differently. It focuses more on things like miracles and it doesn't even mention the temptation, as well as various other events, but it was intended that way.
So back to understanding what is going on in John compared to Luke. The event isn't being recalled as it's taking place. It's John the Baptist testifying of that event afterwards. When you get to the Marriage Feast in Cana, it's referring to a separate event that took place afterwards. The difficult part is when you get to the mention of the third day, because there are two distinct possibilities. It could either be a continuation of events already mentioned, but it's also possible it's specific to the marriage feast, because a traditional marriage ceremony lasted around 5-7 days, so it could be the third day of that ceremony.
