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.
Marriage at Cana serving it last (). John adds that: "Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and it revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him" (). Although none of the Synoptic Gospels mention the marriage at Cana, Christian tradition based on holds that this is the first public miracle of Jesus. It is considered to have symbolic importance as the first of the seven signs in the Gospel of John by which Jesus' divine status is attested, and around which the gospel is structured. Interpreted allegorically, the good news and hope implied by the story