John 2:6
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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7Jesus told the servants,“Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top.
8Then he told them,“Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” and they did.
9When 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
10and 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!”
11Jesus 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.
12Cleansing 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 2:1-55 verses77%
1Turning Water into Wine Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
2and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.
3When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him,“They have no wine left.”
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5His mother told the servants,“Whatever he tells you, do it.”
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37He made the ten stands in this way. All of them were cast in one mold and were identical in measurements and shape.
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22Further 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.
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6Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.
7A 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.)
9So 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.)
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26It 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.
27He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet long, six feet wide, and four-and-a-half feet high.
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9They said to him,“Where do you want us to prepare it?”
10He 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,
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5He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.
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1The 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).
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12Surely 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.”
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6(Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.)
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44the big bronze basin called“The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath,
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25Now a dispute came about between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.
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15The woman said to him,“Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
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22The 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.
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30Then he put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.
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2(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),
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16From 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.
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28Any 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.
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2Now the Jewish Feast of Shelters was near.
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2Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.
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28Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,
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43Onward to Galilee After the two days he departed from there to Galilee.