The Wedding at Cana prowess with perspective and architecture (actual and virtual) persuaded the viewer to see "The Wedding Feast at Cana" as a spacial extension of the refectory. In "The Wedding Feast at Cana" (1563), Paolo Veronese depicts the New Testament story of the Marriage at Cana within the historical context of the Renaissance in the 16th century. In the Gospel of John, the story of the first Christian miracle, Mary, her son, Jesus of Nazareth, and some of his Apostles, attend a wedding in Cana, a city in Galilee. In the course of the wedding banquet, the supply of wine was becoming
Marriage at Cana may also be interpreted as the antitype of Moses' first public miracle of . This would establish a symbolic link between Moses as the first savior of the Jews through their escape from Egypt and Jesus as the spiritual savior of all people. Some commentators have speculated about the identity of the unnamed bridegroom. One tradition, represented by Thomas Aquinas among others, holds that the bridegroom was St John the Evangelist himself. Bishop John Spong suggests in his book "Born of a Woman" that the event was actually the wedding of Jesus himself to Mary Magdalene. In 1854, at a