“What has this concern of yours to do with Me,[a](A) woman?”(B) Jesus asked. “My hour[b] has not yet come.”

“Do whatever He tells you,” His mother told the servants.

Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification.(C) Each contained 20 or 30 gallons.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. John 2:4 Or You and I see things differently; lit What to Me and to you; Mt 8:29; Mk 1:24; 5:7; Lk 8:28
  2. John 2:4 The time of His sacrificial death and exaltation; Jn 7:30; 8:20; 12:23,27; 13:1; 17:1
  3. John 2:6 Lit 2 or 3 measures

“Woman,[a](A) why do you involve me?”(B) Jesus replied. “My hour(C) has not yet come.”

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”(D)

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

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Footnotes

  1. John 2:4 The Greek for Woman does not denote any disrespect.
  2. John 2:6 Or from about 75 to about 115 liters