Khirbet Qana Khirbet Qana Khirbet Qana is an archaeological site in the Lower Galilee of Israel. It has remains of a settlement from the Hellenistic to early Arab period. It has been associated with the Marriage at Cana of the New Testament. Khirbet Qana is one of the locations in Galilee that researchers consider as a possibility for the biblical town of Cana, where Jesus turned water into wine at the Marriage at Cana. Crusader’s maps have been cited as evidence identifying Khirbet Qana with the biblical Cana. The writings of Burchard of Mount Sion have also linked Khirbet Qana with Cana.
James, brother of Jesus the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.": The Gospel of John never mentions anyone called James, but mentions Jesus' unnamed "brothers" as being present with Mary when Jesus attended the wedding at Cana (), and later that his brothers did not believe in him (). Fragment X of Papias (writing in the second century) refers to "James the bishop and apostle". Hegesippus (2nd century), in the fifth book of his Commentaries, mentions that James was made a bishop