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
Bible translations into the languages of Russia New Testament in 2001, Ruth, Esther, Jonah and Lamentations in 2003, and the Pentateuch, Proverbs and Psalms in 2005. The complete Bible was published in 2011. The translation of the Bible into Wakhi language has begun in Moscow. The first publication of a biblical text into Wakhi, was an excerpt from the Gospel of Luke (2:1-20) in a book on the birth of Jesus in the 80 languages of the peoples of the CIS, (IBT, 2000. p. 68-69). In 2001 the Institute for Bible Translation published 1,500 copies of "Selections from Luke". An edition of the Gospels into the Sakha