Cana 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 the bridegroom had run out. Although none of the synoptic gospels record the event, mainstream Christian tradition
Cana holds that this is the first public miracle of Jesus. The other biblical references to Cana are also in John: , which mentions that Jesus is visiting Cana when he is asked to heal the son of a royal official at Capernaum; and , where it is mentioned that Nathanael (sometimes identified with the Bartholomew included in the synoptic gospels' lists of apostles) comes from Cana. The Book of Joshua mentions one city () and one brook (; ) named Cana – neither is likely to be the Cana of Galilee. In secular history, the annals of Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser