‘He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine, and there was a certain high official of the king whose son was sick at Capernaum.'
So He arrived back in Cana where He had turned the water into wine. The reference to the fact encapsulates the section from John 2:1 to this point, for John's side references are always significant. The replacement of the old by the new has been well illustrated in between.
And now in nearby Capernaum (twenty five miles/forty kilometres away) lived ‘a court official', probably of the court of Herod Antipas, whose son was very ill. The side reference to the water turned to wine may indicate a similarity with what was about to happen. Here we have a miracle without fuss indicating the power of One Who has but to determine what shall be for it to happen. But it has to be accepted in faith by those involved. In that it involved the giving of life to a dying man it illustrates the arrival of the Coming One. The turning of water into wine had been the first sign in John's list (John 2:11), this was the second (John 4:54). But He had performed many miracles in between (John 2:23-25; John 3:2).