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CHAP. XC. Cana. (Book 90)
WE have little to certifie as of the situation of this place: only we learn this of Josephus concerning Cana, that it was such a distance from Tiberias, as he could measure with his Army in one night. For when word was brought him by letters, that the enemy Justus had endeavoured to draw away the Tiberians from their fidelity to∣wards him, a I was then, saith he, in a Town of Galilee, called Cana: taking therefore* 1.1 with me two hundred Souldiers, I travailed the whole night, having dispatched a messenger before, to tell the Tiberians of my coming: and in the morning, when I approached the City, the people came out to meet me, &c.
He makes mention also of Cana in the same book Of his own life, in these words; b 1.2 Sylla, King Agrippa's General, encamping five furlongs from Julias, blocked up the ways with guards, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, both that which leads to Cana, and that which leads to the Castel Gamala. But now when Julias and Gamala with∣out all doubt were beyond Jordan, it may be enquired, whether that Cana were not also on that side. But those things that follow seem to deny this: for he blocked up the ways 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that by this means he might shut out all supplies that might come from the Galileans. Mark that, that might come from the Galileans, that is, from Cana, and other places of Galilee about Cana.
That Julias, which Sylla besieged, was Julias Betharamphtha (of which afterwards) which was seated on the further bank of Jordan, there where it is now ready to flow into the Sea of Genesaret. Therefore Cana seems on the contrary to lie on this side Jor∣dan, how far removed from it, we say not, but, we guess, not far, and it was distant such a space from Tiberias, as the whole length of the Sea of Genesaret doth contain.