1:19–51). The echo of the Cana story, as it were, reverberates in the following, the cleansing of the temple (Jn 2:12–22), the discourse of Jesus with Nicodemus concerning the begetting from above by water and the Spirit (John 3), and the discourse of Jesus with the Samaritan woman about living water (John 4).82 The symbolic language of the Cana story must be especially informed by those stories; otherwise, the various aspects of the story, and especially the water and the wine, threaten to become