A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible
- Between the Porch and the altar
- Blessed are the peacemakers
- Blessed are they that have not seen
- Blessed be the paps
- Blessed Virgin Mary Compared to the Air We Breathe, The
- Blind Bartimaeus
- Bread upon the waters
- Bunch of grapes, The
- Burning of the Temple
- But men loved darkness rather than light
- By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept
- By the waters of Babylon, B.C.570
- By the waters of Whitechapel
- Cana Revisited
- Carpenter's Son, The
- Carpenter's Son, The
- Castle of Perseverance (and various other mystery plays)
- Charity
- Chewing the cud, The
- Child
- Children of men, The
- Christ
- Christ crucified
- Christmas
- Cold Lazarus
- Coming of the End, The
- Coming of the plague, The
- Confessions of a Justified Sinner
- Consider the Lilies
- Consider the [3Lilies3] of the Field
- Coronet, The
- Covenant, The
- Crucible, The
- Crucifixion (many poems contain this term)
- Crucifying
- Darkness at Noon
- Darkness Visible
- Daughter of Herodias, The
- David
- David and Bathsheba
- David and Goliath
- David in the cave of Adullam
- Day of Atonement
- Day of Judgement
- Day of Judgement, The
- De Profundis
- De Profundis
- Death is Swallowed up in Victory
- Death of Moses, The
- Death of Saul, The
A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible: Cana Revisited
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PoemDefinition
A wedding at Cana was the site of Jesus turning water into wineJewish village where Jesus' first recorded miracle took place, when the Bible says he turned water into wine at a wedding feast.
The name given to the man believed by Christians to be the Son of God. Also given the title Christ, meaning 'anointed one' or Messiah. His life is recorded most fully in the Four Gospels.
An essential ingredient for life, water has many meanings in the Bible:
1. God has mastery over the seas.
2. Water is seen as a force of judgement.
3. Ceremonial cleansing.
4. An image of the Holy Spirit.
5. An image of eternal life.
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