John's received Cana scene stores Mary's request and instruction as speech, not as a verified water-to-wine laboratory
John later tells a Cana wedding in which Mary requests help and instructs servants. The sign is not stored as a verified laboratory event. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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John later tells a Cana wedding in which Mary requests help and instructs servants. The sign is not stored as a verified laboratory event. The instrument is received speech. Mary, mother of Jesus's documented role is: She is shown speaking at a wedding. The sign is Johannine narrative. This catalog does not upgrade it to a verified physical miracle. Low confidence as occurrence; stored as received speech-and-care.
Context
Servants and the bridegroom's household share the scene. Sharing them is required. Synoptics lack this scene. The setting of John's received Cana scene stores Mary's request and instruction as speech, not as a verified water-to-wine laboratory is the public file around 0029-03-01. Driver social-cohesion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Shared responsibility is part of John's received Cana scene stores Mary's request and instruction as speech, not as a verified water-to-wine laboratory. Naming Mary, mother of Jesus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0029-03-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Why it matters
Improving path from John's received Cana scene stores Mary's request and instruction as speech, not as a verified water-to-wine laboratory on 0029-03-01. A received request on behalf of a feast is a cohesion path of low miracle-confidence. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Mary, mother of Jesus
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.36 · verified
She is shown speaking at a wedding. The sign is Johannine narrative. This catalog does not upgrade it to a verified physical miracle. Low confidence as occurrence; stored as received speech-and-care.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactJohn's received Cana scene stores Mary's request and instruction as speech, not as a verified water-to-wine laboratory
- strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 March 29 · verified
A received request on behalf of a feast is a cohesion path of low miracle-confidence.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.New Advent — John 19 crucifixion English as later carrierNew Advent · High credibility · verified
- 2.Fordham — John as later English neighbourhoodFordham University sourcebooks · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: New Advent — John 2 Cana as later English at https://www.newadvent.org/bible/joh001.htm (opens in a new tab) (New Advent). Independent locator: Fordham — John as later English neighbourhood at https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/gospel-john.asp (opens in a new tab) (Fordham University sourcebooks). Official carrier: New Advent — John 2 Cana as later English (https://www.newadvent.org/bible/joh001.htm (opens in a new tab); New Advent). Independent carrier: Fordham — John as later English neighbourhood (https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/gospel-john.asp (opens in a new tab); Fordham University sourcebooks).
Established: a sourced public record of John's received Cana scene stores Mary's request and instruction as speech, not as a verified water-to-wine laboratory under 0029-03-01 for Mary, mother of Jesus. Established: a sourced public record of John's received Cana scene stores Mary's request and instruction as speech, not as a verified water-to-wine laboratory under 0029-03-01.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Miracle as verified Fact is refused; received narrative instrument is stored. Mixed effects of John's received Cana scene stores Mary's request and instruction as speech, not as a verified water-to-wine laboratory are separate paths.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorMary, mother of Jesus
- contributed toFactJohn's received Cana scene stores Mary's request and instruction as speech, not as a verified water-to-wine laboratory
- strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). John's received Cana scene stores Mary's request and instruction as speech, not as a verified water-to-wine laboratory. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/mar-cana
https://factrail.ai/facts/mar-cana
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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