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  2. Wedding at Cana - Wikipedia

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    When his mother notices that the wine (Ancient Greek: οἶνος) has run out, Jesus delivers a sign of his divinity by turning water into wine at her request. The location of Cana has been subject to debate among biblical scholars and archaeologists; several villages in Galilee are possible candidates.

  3. Alcohol in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    vinegar, sour wine; could be made from grape wine or other fermented beverages; when mixed with water, it was a common, cheap drink of the poor and of the Roman army [42] [43] [80] [81] chomets [82] σίκερα sikera: 4608 1 NT [83] and Septuagint [84] [85] a Hebrew loanword from shekar meaning "strong drink." [86] shekar: μέθυσμα ...

  4. Cana - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Christian views on alcohol - Wikipedia

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    Jesus making wine from water in The Marriage at Cana, a 14th-century fresco from the Visoki Dečani monastery. Christian views on alcohol are varied. Throughout the first 1,800 years of Church history, Christians generally consumed alcoholic beverages as a common part of everyday life and used "the fruit of the vine" [1] in their central rite—the Eucharist or Lord's Supper.

  6. John 2 - Wikipedia

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    It contains the famous stories of the miracle of Jesus turning water into wine and Jesus expelling the money changers from the Temple. The author of the book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that John composed this gospel. [1]

  7. List of Christian holy places in the Holy Land - Wikipedia

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    Nazareth is Jesus's hometown and the scriptural place of the Annunciation, venerated at the Grotto of the Annunciation and the apocryphal site at Mary's Well, with a host of other minor holy places; Cana of the Galilee is the town where Jesus made his first miracle by turning the water into wine.

  8. Jesus in comparative mythology - Wikipedia

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    The first instance of possible Dionysian influence is Jesus's miracle of turning water into wine at the Marriage at Cana in John 2:1–11. [16] [84] The account bears some resemblance to a number of stories that were told about Dionysus. [86]

  9. Gospel of John - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, it includes scenes not found in the Synoptics, including Jesus turning water into wine at the wedding at Cana, the resurrection of Lazarus, Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, and multiple visits to Jerusalem. [92] In the fourth gospel, Jesus's mother Mary is mentioned in three passages but not named.