John 2:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

At the feast there were six stone water jars that were used by the people for washing themselves in the way that their religion said they must. Each jar held about a hundred litres.

Cross References

Luke 16:6

“A hundred barrels of olive oil,” the man answered. So the manager said, “Take your bill and sit down and quickly write ‘fifty’.”

John 2:7

Jesus told the servants to fill them to the top with water. Then after the jars had been filled,

John 3:25

John's followers got into an argument with a Jewish man about a ceremony of washing.

Ephesians 5:26

He made the church holy by the power of his word, and he made it pure by washing it with water.

Hebrews 10:22

So let's come near God with pure hearts and a confidence that comes from having faith. Let's keep our hearts pure, our consciences free from evil, and our bodies washed with clean water.

Hebrews 6:2

And we shouldn't need to keep teaching about baptisms or about the laying on of hands or about people being raised from death and the future judgment.

Hebrews 9:10

These rules are merely about such things as eating and drinking and ceremonies for washing ourselves. And rules about physical things will last only until the time comes to change them for something better.

Hebrews 9:19

Moses told the people all that the Law said they must do. Then he used red wool and a hyssop plant to sprinkle the people and the book of the Law with the blood of bulls and goats and with water.