Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.
As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen:
for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.
The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
Thus the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”
Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
A large crowd was following him because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick.