Marriage at Cana
Bach composed the cantata in his second year as "Thomaskantor" in Leipzig as part of his second annual cycle, planned to consist only of chorale cantatas based on Lutheran hymns. He wrote the cantata for the Second Sunday after Epiphany. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were taken from the Epistle to the Romans (we have several gifts – ) and from the Gospel of John (the Marriage at Cana – ).