Tunnels & # 39; where Jesus changed water into wine & # 39; found it

Archaeologists think they have found the place where Christians believe Jesus changed water into wine – thanks to new directions. It is now assumed that mysterious secret tunnels are in Israel where his first miracle has been performed, and the new discovery could finally put an end to centuries of discussions about where the act was carried out.

According to the Gospel of John, Jesus changed water into wine during the Wedding in Cana. For hundreds of years pilgrims have been traveling to Kafr Kanna, a city in the north of Israel, where they found the 20th-century church & # 39; wedding church & # 39; visit. But the true location has long been discussed – and now archaeologists believe that the Cana of biblical times can be a dusty hill eight miles to the north.

It is the former site of Khirbet Qana, a Jewish village between 323 BC and 324 AD, where archaeologists have discovered a number of convincing clues. Excavations have revealed a network of tunnels used for Christian worship, marked with crosses and references to Kyrie Iesou, a Greek expression that means Lord Jesus. There was also an altar and a shelf with the remains of a stone barrel, plus room for five more. Six stone pots like these contain the wine in the biblical account of the miracle.

Dr. Tom McCollough, who directs excavations on the site, said there were three other sites with a credible claim to be the Cana of Scripture. "But none has the ensemble of evidence that is such a convincing argument for Khirbet Qana.We have discovered a large Christian worship cave complex that was used by Christian pilgrims who worshiped the water-to-wine miracle. used from the end of the fifth or early sixth century and was still used by pilgrims in the 12th-century crusader period, text from this period describing what pilgrims did and saw when they came to Cana Galilee match very closely with what we have uncovered as the worship complex, "he said.