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Jesus saith to her, `What -- to me and to thee, woman? not yet is mine hour come.'

His mother saith to the ministrants, `Whatever he may say to you -- do.'

And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, holding each two or three measures.

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“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