Cana there yet." Ain Qana is considered by some to be a better candidate based on etymological grounds. Cana The Gospel of John refers a number of times to a town called Cana of Galilee (). The name possibly derives from the Hebrew or Aramaic word for "reeds". 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 () when the wine provided by
Cana Cana might have been. In his Gospel, the author makes no claim to have been at the wedding. Many would regard the story of the wedding at Cana as of theological rather than historical or topographical significance; it is the first of the seven miraculous ""signs"" by which Jesus's divine status is attested, and around which the gospel is structured. The consensus of modern scholarship is that the Fourth Gospel was addressed to a group of Jewish Christians, and very possibly a group living in Judea province; so it is unlikely that the evangelist would have mentioned a place that