Cana

Cana is called “Cana of Galilee” (John 2:1). There, at a wedding to which Jesus and his disciples were invited, he turned water into wine (John 2:1–10): “This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him” (John 2:11).

When Jesus came again to Cana, a nobleman whose son lay sick at Capernaum begged him to come and heal him. Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The boy recovered at that hour, and the father “believed, as did his whole house” (John 4:46–53). This was “the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee” (John 4:54).

Nathanael, whom Jesus called “an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit,” was “of Cana in Galilee” (John 1:47; John 21:2).

The site of Cana is not certain. The traditional site, shown on the map, is Kafr Kanna, a few miles northeast of Nazareth; Khirbet Qana, some eight or nine miles north of Nazareth, is the other main candidate. Cana is a different place from Kanah, a town on the border of Asher (Joshua 19:28).