Jurification In Jewish Culture

John’s gospel was able to bring out the incredible detail in verse 6-7 because he knows the secret to encoding the message which Jesus is trying to pass along to us. In Jewish culture weddings like these lasted one to two weeks. Some scholars argue that the wedding probably must have gone on for some time, long enough to run out of wine. There must have been plenty of empty wine pots and jugs available. But Jesus didn't ask the servants to fill the smaller empty vessels, instead, he told them to use the water pots which are specifically made for purification.

These water pots were used for the purifying of the Jews. They are used for ceremonial washing whenever someone came into a home. A Jewish persona is expected to dip their hands on a water pot and wash their hands as a sign of purification because they still follow mosaic laws.

Instead, these stone water pots were chiseled out of boulders. They were big and heavy (two to three firkins is 18 to 27 gallons) and are consecrated for holy purposes. The Jesus idea of turning a consecrated water pot into a drinking wine pot is to demonstrate that we will no longer need to perform physical rituals, for example washing of hands, baptism, or circumcision as a sign of purifying ourselves before God can accept us; rather his death will offer us internal purification. In other words, we will no longer need such religious ritual before we can be accepted by God. That is why Jesus defiles the water pot by making it look impure showing that Our purification will now come from him and not from performing physical