𝑩𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝒎𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒔 
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 :
John 2:1-11
New International Version
Jesus Changes Water Into Wine2 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee.(A) Jesus’ mother(B) was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
4 “Woman,[a](C) why do you involve me?”(D) Jesus replied. “My hour(E) has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”(F)
6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing,(G) each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.[b]
7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine.(H) He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs(I) through which he revealed his glory;(J) and his disciples believed in him.(K)
writer of John 2:1-11 just borrowed a story of Dionysus' miracle-working for his story of Jesus turning water into wine.
In fact the real inspiration seems clear. Turning water into wine was firmly the province of the Greek god of wine Dionysus (and his Roman counterpart Bacchus). In abundant and widespread pagan myths, sometimes water turns to wine, sometimes empty but sealed jars are found to be filled with wine. The story was known in the Greek parts of Palestine; in fact one of the legends of Dionysus turning water into wine was related during the annual festival held in his honor in the coastal city of Sidon.
Heinrichs summarized:
“After the rise of Christianity, Dionysus had emerged as the leading pagan antagonist of Christ. Dionysus and Christ had much in common. Both had conquered death, both obscured the distinction between blood and wine, and both promised their followers life after death.” (Henrichs
1984, 212-13)
Dionysus: Born of a Virgin on December 25th, Killed and Resurrected after Three Days 
The Greek god of wine, Dionysus or Bacchus, also called Iacchus, has been depicted as having been born of a virgin mother on December 25th; performing miracles such as changing water into wine; appearing surrounded by or one of 12 figures; bearing epithets such as “Father” and “Savior”; dying; resurrecting after three days; and ascending into heaven.
Dionysus shares the following attributes in common with the Christ character as found in the New Testament and Christian tradition.
Dionysus was born of a virgin on “December 25th” or the winter solstice.
He is the son of the heavenly Father.
As the Holy Child, Bacchus was placed in a cradle/crib/manger “among beasts.”
Dionysus was a traveling teacher who performed miracles.
He was the God of the Vine, and turned water into wine.
Dionysus rode in a “triumphal procession” on an ass.
He was a sacred king killed and eaten in an eucharistic ritual for fecundity and purification.
The god traveled into the underworld to rescue his loved one, arising from the land of the dead after three days.
Dionysus rose from the dead on March 25th and ascended into heaven.
Bacchus was deemed “Father,” “Liberator” and “Savior.”
Dionysus was considered the “Only Begotten Son,” “King of Kings,” “God of Gods,” “Sin Bearer,” “Redeemer,” “Anointed One” and the “Alpha and Omega.”
He was identified with the Ram or Lamb.
His sacrificial title of “Dendrites” or “Young Man of the Tree” indicates he was hung on a tree or crucified.
“Early Christian art is rich with Dionysiac associations, whether in boisterous representations of agape feasting, in the miracle of water-into-wine at Cana, in wine and vine motifs alluding to the Eucharaist, and most markedly…in the use of Dionysiac facial traits for representations of Christ.”
—Dr. Thomas F. Mathews, The Clash of the Gods, 45
Dionysus’s miracle of changing water to wine is recounted in pre-Christian times by Diodorus (Library of History, 3.66.3). As the god of the vine, Dionysus is depicted in ancient texts as traveling around teaching agriculture, as well as doing various other miracles, such as in Homer’s The Iliad, dating to the 9th century BCE, and in The Bacchae of Euripides, the famous Greek playwright who lived around 480 to 406 BCE.
“Dionysus’s blood is the wine of the sacrifice.”
biblical scholar Dr. A.J. Mattill remarks:
This story is really the Christian counterpart to the pagan legends of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, who at his annual festival in his temple of Elis filled three empty kettles with wine-no water needed! And on the fifth of January wine instead of water gushed from his temple at Andros. If we believe Jesus’ miracle, why should we not believe Dionysus’s? (Leedom, 125)
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Reference: The Masks of Christ: Behind the Lies and Cover-Ups About the Life of Jesus by Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince, page 203
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