Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes{2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, 16 to 25 imperial gallons, or 75 to 115 litres.} apiece.
How strange that a certain school of interpreters can make so much of the indefinite capacity of the pots and so little of their exact number!  No eye-witness could have told by looking at them exactly how much water they held; and, therefore, an indefinite statement of their capacity was strictly proper and correct.  The parable theory regarding this sign is really hard-pressed for evidence to support it when its advocate will seize upon something like this.