Jesus Turned Water Into Wine, But Where Did It Actually Happen?

From the front seat of my car at 5:20 AM, I share some bittersweet news about my parking lot buddy Tim heading off to Alaska. We've had this unspoken competition about who arrives first each morning, and strangely enough, I'll miss seeing his headlights pull up in the dark.

The weekend brought precious time with my grandson - that happy, smart little boy who never seems to throw fits (at least not at Grandma and Grandpa's house). But what really caught my attention this week was a fascinating archaeological discovery about Jesus's first miracle. A historian believes he's found compelling evidence for the true location where Jesus turned water into wine - complete with ancient Christian tunnels marked with crosses, a veneration cave complex used by pilgrims for centuries, and even space for exactly six stone jars as mentioned in Scripture. The physical connection to biblical history is absolutely mind-blowing.

I've been watching the fifth season of The Chosen, and Jonathan Roumie's portrayal of Jesus continues to move me deeply. I find myself feeling strangely sympathetic toward Judas, watching his fundamental misunderstanding of Jesus's mission unfold. After attending Marjorie Taylor Greene's recent talk, her message about getting involved locally resonated strongly. Too many of us whisper "I don't want to get involved" when faced with challenging issues in our communities. Whether it's through social media or showing up at local meetings, we all have opportunities to stand for what we believe. What's your favorite miracle that Jesus performed in the Bible? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Morning Routine and Tim's Departure
• 2:22 Weekend with the Grandson
• 2:56 Jesus's Water to Wine Miracle Location
• 7:34 Thoughts on The Chosen Series
• 9:42 MTG Speech and Getting Involved
• 12:21 Question of the Day

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:15

Well, hello, good morning. Well, I have some sad news kind of not really. In case you're new listeners here, some information here. I record my little episodes in my car when I pull up to work in the morning. So I work from 6 to 2.30 and I usually get to the parking lot about 5.20. Work from 6 to 2 30 and I usually get to the parking lot about 5 20 and I just hit record on my cell phone. After I talk into it for 10 minutes, I straight upload it to my podcast platform. There is no fluff and frill here here. Uh, this I'm a rough cut gym with this, up with these with this podcast. But anyway, so I used to.

Speaker 1: 1:02

Just I would get here at 5 20 in the morning and then sometimes a co-worker of mine would arrive as well. Sometimes he would beat me here. By the way, I found it found out his name, his name is Tim uh, and then I, it used to just get under my skin so much that he would beat me to work. I don't know why. Competitiveness, I guess, is in my nature. Well, I found you know it's. It became a running joke here on the podcast I after a while it didn't really bother me that he got here, and then, of course, I made it to where I got here first.

Speaker 1: 1:41

I know long story. He is leaving and he's leaving. He found another job, he's going to Alaska. So I will not see him here next to me pull up in the morning anymore. I'm sad, you know, especially when it was still dark outside. I always felt safe when he actually was here and showed up with me at the same time.

Speaker 1: 2:05

But anyway, moving on, we had a great weekend. This weekend seemed kind of long, it was just a regular weekend though, but we had the Grand Cam on Saturday. He is such a happy boy, my goodness. Oh, I just love him so much. He's so smart, happy, positive. I just love him. Happy, positive. I just love him. He doesn't throw fits. At least I've not seen him throw any fits. Um, when? If he doesn't get his way, of course, it always gets his way at our house.

Speaker 1: 2:35

But uh, all right, we need to move on to some topics today. What am I talking about today? I think I put something out on X. Let's go over here. Did you guys hear I guess you've heard about this Idaho thing who starts a fire to lure firefighters in to? I mean not lure them in. I mean, that's what firefighters do? They go put out fires. Who does this? And then shoots them? Who shoots firefighters? Oh my gosh, just demented. Oh, but this story here has nothing to do with the firefighters. See, rough cut Archaeologist uncovers persuasive evidence of true location where Jesus turned water into wine.

Speaker 1: 3:18

You know the story. He goes to a wedding and his mother asks him to turn some water into wine. He said, mother, it's not my time, I'm not ready, but he does it anyway. He said, mother, it's not my time, I'm not ready, but he does it anyway, because, you know, at a wedding you have to have wine and these people, I guess, ran out. People were having a good time at this wedding, apparently All right. So a historian believes he's found the location of Jesus Christ's first miracle and has newfound evidence to back it up. Well, we'll see.

Speaker 1: 3:52

Scripture gives limited details about jesus first miracle. Does it really give limited details? Which is said to have taken place in cana, cana, cana. The gospel of john states that jesus turned water into wine during a wedding. In the village nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from 20 to 30 gallons. That's a lot of wine. The gospel states. Jesus said to the servants fill the jars with water. So they filled them to the brim. The passage continues. Then he told them now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet. Then he told them now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet. They did so and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. Well, let's get down to where we think where this happened. But historian Tom McCullough says that Cana was actually located five miles north of Kaffir Kana I'm sure I'm not pronouncing these names correctly. The site, called Kirbit Kana, was a Jewish village from 323 BC to 324 AD.

Speaker 1: 5:07

Mccullough taught religion and history at Center College Until his retirement in 2017, he told Penn News that Kerbic kind of presents the most compelling evidence so far. No other village has the ensemble of evidence that makes such a persuasive case Tunnels used by Christians, marked with various crosses with references to Christ, which date back to over 1,500 years. That's fascinating. I did not know that. That is wild, that there's tunnels used by Christians.

Speaker 1: 5:44

Wow uncovered a large Christian veneration cave complex that was used by Christian pilgrims who came to venerate the water to wine miracle. Huh. This complex was used beginning in the late 5th or early 6th century and continued to be used by pilgrims into the 12th century Crusader period. Wow, to be used by pilgrims into the 12th century crusader period. Wow. During the excavation, mccullough also uncovered an altar and a shelf with a stone vessel. He noted that there was space for five additional jars, consistent with the biblical account of six stone jars. Well, I mean, that really doesn't mean anything. I'm sure a lot of people had these jars in their house, in these homes. Right, he noted that there was space for five additional jars. We already said that. On the walls at the of the complex, his team excavators also uncovered references to I can't pronounce this a carry less you, a coin Greek phrase meaning Lord Jesus. Wow, wow.

Speaker 1: 6:55

The pilgrim text we have from this period that describe what pilgrims did and saw when they came to Cana of Galilee match every very closely that we have exposed as okay. You can go finish reading that if you would like. That's the only thing I have out on my x file this morning. Uh, I really don't have anything else for you this morning except that I am watching the fifth season of the chosen. That guy what's his name? Jonathan roomie, I think is his name who plays jesus in the chosen, is just freaking fantastic. Oh, I love him. It's gonna be curious to see how, how the crucifixion, uh, I'm not looking forward to that part of it.

Speaker 1: 7:44

But I is it wrong for me to feel for Judas? Oh man, I just wanted to knock him on his head and say Judas, why don't you understand about this? He still thinks that you know, I'm watching this, the show. He thinks that Jesus is like only the physical king that's going to overthrow Caesar, uh, in Rome, here on earth. And it's not, obviously, we all know that. But why I feel bad? I feel for Judas. Bless his heart. Well, it can't bless his heart anymore. But oh, judas, come on. I just, oh it just. My heart aches because we all know what's coming.

Speaker 1: 8:27

Uh, is it wrong for me to feel bad for Judas? I don't know. I know people don't like him because he's the one that betrayed Jesus. But it was supposed to happen, correct? I mean, this was all prophesied. Am I using that correctly? It was at all points in the Old Testament right that this all was supposed to play out the way it was supposed to play out? I don't know. I am not a biblical scholar, but I am a believer and follower of jesus christ. I love him so much and, um, yeah, and I thank him for everything that he has done and not done for me, and I also I've got to remember. Thank you, lord, for unanswered prayers. Yes, okay, all right, that's all I've got for you. Oh, we need the question of the day. Hold on, I forgot to tell you the most.

Speaker 1: 9:22

One of the other parts of my weekend is I got to go see marjorie taylor green speak in alabama. Some kind of fundraiser, I guess it was for moms, for liberty, I'm not sure. Uh, dale strong our representative was, he was also here. But uh, marjorie taylor green, she gave a good talk. It was good. She gave a good talk. She talked about how our young people. She really can't blame the young people for looking to these radical left you you know Democrats now, these Democrat socialists, because all of the years from Obama and Biden and everybody in Washington just not really doing anything, pretty much destroying the American dream. So it's no one. She can't really blame the young people for looking when these people come along and say we're going to give you all kinds of stuff for free and so it sounds good, right.

Speaker 1: 10:15

She also talked about people getting involved her own experience when she first ran for congress. You know, I didn't know that she ran for congress. It was only five years ago, in 2020. I did not know that, but before that she was involved in her local area things and she found out that this they were going to have drag queen story hour this was 2017, 2018 in her, in her district, in her school library, and she went to the school and the city council. She said what is going on? Why is this happening? And they kind of whispered to well, we don't really want to get involved and this. So she said, all right. So she went to the church that was closest to the school, tried to talk to the moms and parents there, who also had a private school, and she said are we not going to get upset and mad about this? What are we going to do? Well, we don't really want to get involved. She went to another church with their private school and parents, hopefully hoping to get them all riled up and involved to get this drag queen story hour out and nobody's like nobody wanted to get involved. We, all we, we don't want to get involved. We don't want to. You know, get put ourselves out there like that. And so we are here where we are today because no one wants to get involved.

Speaker 1: 11:32

Get involved, Even if it's just putting stuff out on social media, making people aware. If you have a large following on social media, start talking about it. Start going to your local libraries and see what's in the library and then go tell someone that this is not appropriate. I don't know. All right, I'm sorry. Question of the library. And then go tell someone that this is not appropriate. I don't know. All right, I'm sorry. Question of the day Promise. Okay, here is the question of the day. What is your favorite miracle that Jesus did in the Bible? That's the question. All right, gotta go Love y'all. Thanks for listening. Bye.