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The village of Cana is mentioned just three times in the Bible<\/a>, all in the Book of John. At a wedding there, Jesus performed his first miracle, turning water into wine at a wedding. Later, he was in Cana when a Roman captain approached him and asked him to heal a servant who was sick in Capernaum, some 12 miles away. Finally, it is mentioned as the home of the disciple Nathaniel.<\/p>\n The location of Cana is disputed. Tradition puts it in Khefr Kennah, a village about four miles from Nazareth which is home to two churches boasting relics and the supposed home of Nathaniel. Modern scholars, however, think it more likely that it is actually an abandoned site known as Kirbet Qana, eight miles north of Nazareth.<\/p>\n Swedenborg<\/a> offers little, saying only that \u201cin Cana of Galilee\u201d means<\/a> \u201camongst the Gentiles.\u201d This reflects the meaning of Galilee as a whole; it also represents those outside the Jewish faith, perhaps because it had a larger foreign population and more foreign influence than Samaria and Judea did.<\/p>\n Passages from Swedenborg<\/b><\/p>\n Apocalypse Explained (Tansley) n. 376\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n (29) By a marriage here, as elsewhere in the Word throughout, is signified the church; in\u00a0Cana\u00a0of Galilee that amongst the Gentiles; and by water is signified the truth of the external church, such as was the truth of the Jewish Church from the sense of the letter of the Word; and by wine is signified the truth of the internal church, such as is the truth of the Christian Church. Hence the Lord’s making the water wine, signifies that He would make the truths of the external church truths of the internal church, by opening the internal things that lay concealed in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cana The village of Cana is mentioned just three times in the Bible, all in the Book of John. At a wedding there, Jesus performed his first miracle, turning water into wine at a wedding. Later, he was in Cana when a Roman captain approached him and asked him to heal a servant who was […]<\/p>\n
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