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John 2:6
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4 Jesus said to her, a“Woman, bwhat does your concern have to do with Me? cMy hour has not yet come.”  
5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”
6 Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, aaccording to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece.  
7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.
8 And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.” And they took it.
9 When the master of the feast had tasted athe water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom.  
10 And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”
11 This abeginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, band manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.  
12 After this He went down to aCapernaum, He, His mother, bHis brothers, and His disciples; and they did not stay there many days.  
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John 2:6

Waterpots (udriai). Old word from udwr (water) and used in papyri for pots or pans for holding money or bread as well as water. These stone (liqinai as in II Corinthians 3:3) jars full of water were kept handy (

set there, keimenai, present middle participle of keimai) at a feast for ceremonial cleansing of the hands (II Kings 3:11; Mark 7:3), "after the Jews' manner of purifying" (kata ton kaqarismon twn Ioudaiwn). See Mark 1:44; Luke 2:22 for the word kaqarismov (from kaqarizw) which fact also raised a controversy with disciples of John because of his baptizing (John 3:25).

Containing (xwrousai). Present active participle feminine plural of xwrew, old verb from xwrov, place, space, having space or room for.

Two or three firkins apiece (ana metrhtav duo h treiv). The word metrhthv, from metrew, to measure, simply means "measurer," an amphora for measuring liquids (in Demosthenes, Aristotle, Polybius), the Hebrew bath (II Chronicles 4:5), here only in N.T., about 8 1/2 English gallons. Each udria thus held about 20 gallons. This common distributive use of ana occurs here only in this Gospel, but is in Revelation 4:8. In John 4:28 a much smaller udria was used for carrying water.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 2:6:

Matthew 15:2
John 3:25
John 4:3
John 4:28

 

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