John 2:6

New English Translation

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

Cross References

Luke 16:6

The man replied, ‘A hundred measures of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’

John 2:7

Jesus told the servants, “Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top.

John 3:25

Now a dispute came about between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.

Ephesians 5:26

to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

Hebrews 6:2

teaching about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Hebrews 9:10

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

Hebrews 9:19

For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,