Cana of Galilee
Located at 95 km south of Beirut, in the village of Cana six stones basins have been discovered in the area where the miracle of turning water into wine is said to have place. Among Christians and other students of the New Testament, Cana is best known as the place where, according to the Fourth Gospel, Jesus performed his first miracle, the turning of a large quantity of water into wine at a wedding feast when the wine provided by the bridegroom had run out. In John's gospel it has considerable symbolic importance: it is the first of the seven miraculous "signs" by which Jesus' divine status is attested, and around which the gospel is structured.
To the north of the town, a cave and carvings on the rocks near the cave are evidence suggesting that the event took place here. Early stone sculptures thought to depict a group of 13 people (Christ and his disciples) have been found. In addition, the Gospel of St. John tells us that Christ performed a second miracle in this place. A nobleman from Capernaum journeyed to Cana to ask the Nazarene to cure his son, who was seriously ill. Jesus granted his request and the son was cured. Cana is also the village of Nathaniel, one of Jesus’ first disciples, who is certainly the apostle Bartholomew of the Synoptic Gospels.
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