His mother said to the servers,That adds up to between 120 and 180 gallons of wine for a party in a little village in Galilee. And this is after a lot of wine has already been drunk. Abbondanza, indeed!
“Do whatever he tells you.”
Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings,
each holding twenty to thirty gallons.
Jesus told them,
“Fill the jars with water.”
So they filled them to the brim.
Pop quiz: How much did those water-turned-to-wine jars weigh? Google tells us that 1 US gallon of water weighs about 8.35 pounds. Each jar, then weighed between 167 and 250 pounds -- plus, what?, 25 pounds for the weight of the stone jars themselves. I hope those servers had dollies handy. (The jars would have been even heavier if imperial gallons were the norm in ancient Galilee. One imperial gallon weighs 10 pounds.)
Footnote: In terms of standard 750 ml wine bottles, those 6 jars amounted to something between 600 and 900 bottles. ABBONDANZA!
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