10 but deal only with (A)food and drink and (B)various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

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10 They are only a matter of food(A) and drink(B) and various ceremonial washings(C)—external regulations(D) applying until the time of the new order.

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10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

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Now there were six stone water jars there (A)for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty (B)gallons.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. John 2:6 Greek two or three measures (metrētas); a metrētēs was about 10 gallons or 35 liters

Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing,(A) each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. John 2:6 Or from about 75 to about 115 liters

And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

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