John 2:6
Now six pots of stone, every one taking two or three firkins of water, were placed there for the purpose of washing, as is the way of the Jews.
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- John 3:25 : 25 Then a question came up between John's disciples and a Jew about washing.
- Heb 9:10 : 10 Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.
- Eph 5:26 : 26 So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,
- Heb 6:2 : 2 The teaching of baptisms, and of the putting on of hands, and of the future life of the dead, and of the judging on the last day.
- Mark 7:2-5 : 2 And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. 3 Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them: 4 And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels. 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?
- Heb 10:22 : 22 Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:
- Heb 9:19 : 19 For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,
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7 Jesus said to the servants, Make the pots full of water. And they made them full to the top.
8 Then he said to them, Now take some, and give it to the master of the feast. So they took it to him.
9 After tasting the water which had now become wine, the master of the feast (having no idea where it came from, though it was clear to the servants who took the water out) sent for the newly-married man,
10 And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.
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12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they were there not more than two or three days.
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2 And Jesus with his disciples came as guests.
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37 All the ten bases were made in this way, after the same design, of the same size and form.
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26 It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths.
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9 And they said to him, Where are we to get it ready?
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5 Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him.
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25 Then a question came up between John's disciples and a Jew about washing.
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30 And between the altar and the Tent of meeting he put the vessel with water in it for washing.
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2 (Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),
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2 But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.
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