A mystery has surrounded the site of Jesus’s first miracle for centuries, but an answer may finally be at hand. According to the Gospel of John, Jesus changed water into wine during the Wedding at Cana. For hundreds of years, pilgrims have believed the site of the miracle to be Kafr Kanna, a town in northern Israel, where they visit the 20th-century Wedding Church. But the true location has long been debated –
and now archaeologists believe the Cana of biblical times may be a dusty hillside five miles further north. It’s the former site of Khirbet Qana, a Jewish village between the years of 323BC and AD 324, where archaeologists have discovered a number of compelling clues. Excavations there have revealed a network of tunnels used for Christian worship, marked with crosses and references to Kyrie Iesou, a Greek phrase meaning Lord Jesus. READ MORE
