To: Friends
Wedding at Cana
From: Fong-Ling
On the third day a wedding
took place at Cana in Galilee.
Jesus’ mother was there,
and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited
to the wedding.
John 2:1-2 (NIV)
Marriage at Cana
by Jacopo Tintoretto
(Italian painter, 1519-1594)
Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Italy.
When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.”
John 2:3 (NIV)
The Marriage at Cana
by Gerard David
(Netherlandish painter, c. 1460-1523),
Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
“Woman, why do you involve me?”
Jesus replied.
“My hour has not yet come.”
John 2:4 (NIV)
Marriage at Cana
by Giorgio Vasari
(Italian painter, 1511-1574),
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary.
His mother said
to the servants,
“Do whatever
He tells you.”
John 2:5 (NIV)
The Marriage at Cana
by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen
(Dutch painter, c.1504-1559),
Bonnefanten Museum,
Maastricht, Netherlands.
The Wedding at Cana by Frans Francken the Younger (Flemish painter, 1581-1642), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.
Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for
ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
John 2:6 (NIV)
Jesus said
to the servants,
“Fill the jars with water”;
so they filled them
to the brim.
John 2:7 (NIV)
Wedding at Cana
by Mattia Preti
(Italian painter, 1613-1699),
National Gallery, London, England.
Wedding at Cana by Adam van Noort (Flemish painter and draughtsman, 1562-1641)
Then He told them, “Now draw some out and
take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so,
John 2:8 (NIV)
and the master of the banquet
tasted the water that
had been turned into wine.
He did not realize where
it had come from,
though the servants who
had drawn the water knew.
Then he called the
bridegroom aside
John 2:9 (NIV)
The Marriage at Cana
by Marten de Vos
(Flemish painter, 1532-1603),
Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belgium.
and said,
“Everyone brings out
the choice wine first and
then the cheaper wine
after the guests have had
too much to drink;
but you have saved
the best till now.”
John 2:10 (NIV)
Marriage at Cana
by Paolo Veronese (Italian painter, 1528-1588),
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany.
What Jesus did here
in Cana of Galilee was
the first of the signs
through which He revealed His glory;
and His disciples believed in Him.
John 2:11 (NIV)
The Wedding Feast at Cana
by Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528-1588), Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
Photographs by Fong-Ling Liau