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Cana is very positively located in Shepherd's Historical Atlas, 1923: modern scholars are less sure.. 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 (John 2, John 2:1–11 ...
Vangjel Meksi translated the New Testament in 1821 with the support of the British and Foreign Bible Society.This work was edited by bishop Gregory IV of Athens. [3] The book of Matthew was published in 1824 and the full New Testament in the Tosk form of Albanian in 1827, in both a full volume and a split two-volume set because "the Albanians had the custom of carrying their books with them ...
The Digital Bible Library lists over 240 different contributors. [1] According to Wycliffe Bible Translators, in September 2024, speakers of 3,765 languages had access to at least a book of the Bible, including 1,274 languages with a book or more, 1,726 languages with access to the New Testament in their native language and 756 the full Bible ...
Articles relating to Cana of Galilee (Ancient Greek: Κανὰ τῆς Γαλιλαίας; Arabic: قانا الجليل, romanized: Qana al-Jalil, lit. 'Qana of the Galilee') and its depictions. It is the location of the Wedding at Cana , at which the miracle of turning water into wine took place in the Gospel of John .
On the right hand side is a statue of the Virgin "Our Lady of Cana of Galilee" in memory of Margot Tyan, mother-in-law of Amine Gemayel, former President of Lebanon. In 2014 Muslims made up 87.40% and Christians made up 12.10% of registered voters in Qana. 86.44% of the voters were Shiite Muslims and 10.45% were Greek Catholics .
Map illustrating the location of Cana at Khirbet Qana (top), with Kefr Kenna (bottom), according to Edward Robinson's 1841 Biblical Researches in Palestine.Robinson wrote that "The monks of the present day, and all recent travellers, find the Cana of the New Testament, where Jesus converted the water into wine, at Kefr Kenna...
The Wedding Feast takes place in Cana shortly after the call of Philip and Nathanael. According to John 21:2, [e] Cana was Nathanael's hometown. [3] Although none of the synoptic Gospels mentions the wedding at Cana, Christian tradition based on John 2:11 [f] holds that this is the first public miracle of Jesus. [4]
During the first century CE, Kafr Kanna was a Jewish village. [6] It was mentioned by the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus in his The Life of Flavius Josephus. [9]On the outskirts of the modern town is the tomb of the Jewish sage, rabbi Simeon ben Gamliel, who became the Nasi (president) of the Sanhedrin in 50 CE.