John 2:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • John 3:25 : 25 Now a dispute came about between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.
  • Eph 5:26 : 26 to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,
  • Heb 6:2 : 2 teaching about ritual washings, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
  • Mark 7:2-5 : 2 And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed. 3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.) 5 The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him,“Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”
  • Heb 10:22 : 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.
  • Heb 9:19 : 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,

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  • John 2:7-12
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    7 Jesus told the servants,“Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top.

    8 Then he told them,“Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” and they did.

    9 When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from(though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

    10 and said to him,“Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!”

    11 Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

    12 Cleansing the Temple After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

  • John 2:1-5
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    1 Turning Water into Wine Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,

    2 and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.

    3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him,“They have no wine left.”

    4 Jesus replied,“Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.”

    5 His mother told the servants,“Whatever he tells you, do it.”

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    37 He made the ten stands in this way. All of them were cast in one mold and were identical in measurements and shape.

    38 He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. Each basin was six feet in diameter; there was one basin for each stand.

  • 22 Further Testimony About Jesus by John the Baptist After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

  • John 4:6-9
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    6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

    7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her,“Give me some water to drink.”

    8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

    9 So the Samaritan woman said to him,“How can you– a Jew– ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?”(For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

  • 13 He sent two of his disciples and told them,“Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.

  • 6 He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in“The Sea.”

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    26 It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold about 12,000 gallons.

    27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet long, six feet wide, and four-and-a-half feet high.

  • 46 Healing the Royal Official’s Son Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.

  • Luke 22:9-10
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    9 They said to him,“Where do you want us to prepare it?”

    10 He said to them,“Listen, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters,

  • 5 He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.

  • 1 The Feeding of the Five Thousand After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee(also called the Sea of Tiberias).

  • 7 Drinks were served in golden containers, all of which differed from one another. Royal wine was available in abundance at the king’s expense.

  • 4 And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.)

  • John 7:37-38
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    37 Teaching About the Spirit On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out,“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

    38 let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says,‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

  • 13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.

  • John 4:11-13
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    11 “Sir,” the woman said to him,“you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

    12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”

    13 Jesus replied,“Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.

  • 6 (Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.)

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    43 the ten movable stands with their ten basins,

    44 the big bronze basin called“The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath,

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

  • 54 Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.

  • 15 The woman said to him,“Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

  • 22 The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake realized that only one small boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

  • 30 Then he put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

  • 2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

  • 16 From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.

  • 28 Any clay vessel it is boiled in must be broken, and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then that vessel must be rubbed out and rinsed in water.

  • 2 Now the Jewish Feast of Shelters was near.

  • 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.

  • 28 Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,

  • 43 Onward to Galilee After the two days he departed from there to Galilee.