Cana — Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary

Galilean town that was the scene of Jesus’ first miracle: changing water into wine at a wedding feast (Jn 2:1, 11 OET JHN 2:1 · OET JHN 2:11). Jesus was again in Cana when he told a nobleman that his son, who was seriously ill at Capernaum, would live (Jn 4:46). Cana was also the home of Jesus’ disciple Nathanael (Jn 21:2).

Show passage in OET: JHN 2:1; JHN 2:11

OET-RV JHN 2:1

2 On the Tuesday, there was a wedding in Kana in Galil, and Yeshua’s (Jesus’; Grk. Yesus’) mother was there

OET-RV JHN 2:11

11 This event in Kana, Galil, was the first of the miracles that Yeshua did, and it revealed his greatness and his followers believed that he was from God.

OET-LV JHN 2:1

2 And on _the the third day a_wedding became in Kana of_ the _Galilaia/(Gālīl), and the mother of_ the _Yaʸsous was there.

OET-LV JHN 2:11

11 This beginning of _the signs the Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) did in Kana the of _Galilaia/(Gālīl), and revealed the glory of _him, and the apprentices/followers of _him believed in him.

Show passage in OET: JHN 4:46

OET-RV JHN 4:46

46 So he went again to Kana there in Galil where he had made the water into wine. Now there was a royal official there, whose son in Kafarnaoum (Capernaum) was ill.

OET-LV JHN 4:46

46 Therefore he _came back to the Kana of_ the _Galilaia, where he _made the water wine.
And was a_certain royal official, of _whose the son was _ailing in Kafarnaʼoum.

Show passage in OET: JHN 21:2

OET-RV JHN 21:2

2 Shim’on (Simon) Kefa (Peter; Grk. Petros), Toma (Thomas) nicknamed ‘Twin’, Netanel (Nathanael) from Kana in Galil, the sons of Zavday (Grk. Zebedaios), and two other apprentices had gathered together

OET-LV JHN 21:2

2 Simōn Petros, and Thōmas which being _called Didumos/[twin], and Nathanaaʸl the one from Kana of_ the _Galilaia/(Gālīl), and the sons the of _Zebedaios, and two others of the apprentices/followers of _him.
were together.

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During the first Jewish rebellion, which resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, Cana was made headquarters for defending Galilee against the Romans. After the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, the town became the seat of the priestly family of Eliashib. John’s Gospel refers to it as “Cana of Galilee,” evidently to distinguish it from the Kanah located near the Phoenician city of Tyre (Jos 19:28). The traditional site of Cana, revered as such since Byzantine and medieval times, is Kefar Kana, about four miles (6.4 kilometers) east of Nazareth on the main road from Nazareth to Tiberias. Contemporary scholarship, however, has almost unanimously settled on Khirbet Kana as the site of NT Cana. That ruin is about eight miles (12.9 kilometers) north of Nazareth on the northern edge of the Battuf Plain. The Arabs of the region call it Cana of Galilee to this day. Archaeologists exploring at the site have found pottery from the Hebrew monarchy period (c. 900–600 BC) as well as from Hellenistic, Roman, Arabic, and Crusader times.