Fountain at Cana of Galilee
“Then when He was come into Galilee the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did at Jerusalem at the feast.” It was at Cana of Galilee that He healed the son of a certain nobleman who was sick at Capernaum. In the picture we see the fountain which is, according to the tradition, the one from which the water pots were filled when Christ made the wine at the marriage feast in Cana. The water here is abundant and pure, and as there is no other fountain in the immediate vicinity, the natives of the village regard its claims as beyond dispute. The large sculptured stone near the fountain, to the left of the picture, is a Roman sarcophagus, now used as a trough for watering cattle. A woman of the village appears in the picture. We find them sometimes in groups, sometimes alone. They often bear jars upon their heads. Beyond the fountain we see a fence of cactus and beyond it are olive and fig trees. The writer and the artist were at this place at about half-past eight on the morning of May 8th, 1894. In the picture we are looking toward the north. To many the miracles of Christ are a source of perplexity and doubt. One has well said that they were the “ordinary and inevitable works of One whose very existence was the highest miracle of all.” A German poet said: “One would have thought that the miracle of miracles was to have created the world such as it is, yet it is a far greater miracle to have lived a perfectly pure life therein.”
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