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This crowded banquet scene shows Christ’s first miracle (John 2: 1–10). He, his mother and the disciples were invited to a wedding feast at Cana in Galilee. When the wine ran out, Mary told her son and he asked to have six stone jars filled with water. When it was tasted it was found to be wine of the finest quality. Christ is seated at the right next to his mother, who has told the servants to do Christ’s bidding. The astonished steward — probably the man in red on the left – exclaimed: ‘Thou hast kept the best wine till last ’. A great narrative painter, Mattia Preti vividly conveys the emotional drama of the episode. In the foreground, servants are decanting the miraculous wine, while the man seated next to Mary lifts his hand in astonishment.