John 2:6

New Century Version

In that place there were six stone water jars that the Jews used in their washing ceremony. Each jar held about twenty or thirty gallons.

Cross References

Luke 16:6

He answered, ‘Eight hundred gallons of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write four hundred gallons.’

John 2:7

Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled the jars to the top.

John 3:25

Some of John’s followers had an argument with a Jew about religious washing.

Ephesians 5:26

to make it belong to God. Christ used the word to make the church clean by washing it with water.

Hebrews 10:22

let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, because we have been made free from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

Hebrews 6:2

We should not return to the teaching about baptisms, about laying on of hands, about the raising of the dead and eternal judgment.

Hebrews 9:10

These gifts and sacrifices were only about food and drink and special washings. They were rules for the body, to be followed until the time of God’s new way.

Hebrews 9:19

First, Moses told all the people every command in the law. Next he took the blood of calves and mixed it with water. Then he used red wool and a branch of the hyssop plant to sprinkle it on the book of the law and on all the people.