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Wedding at Cana. The wedding at Cana (also called the marriage at Cana, wedding feast at Cana or marriage feast at Cana) is the name of the story in the Gospel of John at which the first miracle attributed to Jesus takes place. [ 1][ 2] In the Gospel account, Jesus, his mother and his disciples are invited to a wedding at Cana in Galilee.
Cana is very positively located in Shepherd's Historical Atlas, 1923: modern scholars are less sure.. Among Christians and other students of the New Testament, Cana is best known as the place where, according to the Fourth Gospel, Jesus performed "the first of his signs", his first public miracle, the turning of a large quantity of water into wine at a wedding feast (John 2, John 2:1–11 ...
The Wedding Feast at Cana. The Wedding Feast at Cana ( Nozze di Cana, 1562–1563), by Paolo Veronese, is a representational painting that depicts the biblical story of the Wedding at Cana, at which Jesus miraculously converts water into red wine ( John 2 :1–11). Executed in the Mannerist style (1520–1600) of the late Renaissance, the large ...
The Gospels include eight pre-resurrection accounts concerning Jesus's power over nature: Turning water into wine at a wedding, when the host runs out of wine, the host's servants fill vessels with water at Jesus's command, then a sample is drawn out and taken to the master of the banquet who pronounces the content of the vessels as the best ...
Christ in the winepress or the mystical winepress[ 1] is a motif in Christian iconography showing Christ standing in a winepress, where Christ himself becomes the grapes in the press. [ 2] It derives from the interpretation by Augustine and other early theologians of a group of passages in the Bible and is found as a visual image in Christian ...
John 2 is the second chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It contains the famous stories of the miracle of Jesus turning water into wine and Jesus expelling the money changers from the Temple. The author of the book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that ...
The Signs Gospel or the semeia source is a hypothetical gospel account of the life of Jesus Christ which some scholars have suggested could have been a primary source document for the Gospel of John. This theory has its basis in source criticism. Since the commentary of Rudolf Bultmann was published in 1941, [ 1] the hypothesis of a semeia ...
There is Jesus turning water into wine in John 2 [24] and the saying about new wineskins in Mark 2:22. [25] Natural growth, like Jesus' parables of the Mustard Seed and the Seed Growing Secretly in Mark 4, [26] was probably a naturally understood metaphor for Mark's audience, [citation needed] as the ancient world was largely an agricultural world.