Did Jesus turn water into wine here? New evidence emerges

If you’ve ever opened a bottle that seemed, miraculously, better than you paid for it, you’ll appreciate why the story of Jesus turning water into wine has had such a long afterlife. According to John’s Gospel, his first public “sign” took place at a wedding feast in a Galilean village called Cana. The problem is, no one is quite sure where Cana actually was.

The Israel Antiquities Authority recently published a hefty monograph by archaeologist Yardenna Alexandre. After years of digging at a mound called Karm er-Ras on the outskirts of today’s Kafr Kanna, she argues the village there was indeed Cana of Galilee. The case is built not on one dramatic discovery but on the slow accumulation of evidence: Early Roman houses, a ritual bath or mikveh, fragments of stone drinking vessels and signs of a pottery industry producing the sort of everyday jars you’d expect in a poor Jewish settlement of the time.

A 2019 excavation even uncovered a dump of pottery-production waste and what appears to be part of a kiln. This hints that Karm er-Ras may have supplied the tableware for the entire neighbourhood – rather less romantic than miraculous wine, but solid archaeology nonetheless.

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