ON “SIX WATERPOTS OF STONE”

ON “SIX WATERPOTS OF STONE”

Jesus started this wonder by utilizing what was within reach. He might have provided more wine in quite a few different ways. However, He began with what was there (John 2:6-7). Yes, according to the manner of purification of the Jews: The waterpots are associated with the arrangement of Law since they were utilised in stately decontamination. Yes, concerning the containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece saw significance for preachers in John’s approximate number;  C. H. Spurgeon said: “Let us always speak correctly; sometimes, ‘almost’ or ‘thereabouts’ will be words that will save our truthfulness. Let us not speak positively when we do not know, and when the accuracy of a statement is necessary, and we cannot give it in definite terms, let us give it in words like these, ‘containing two or three firkins apiece.”

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