More to the point is the sheer quantity of water required to fill the six31 jars. If each jar held “two or three measures” (a measure equaling about nine gallons), the total amount of water turned to wine would be enormous—somewhere between 110 and 160 gallons! If the Gospel writer had accented the water source instead of the water jars, there would have been no way to measure this amount. It appears that the sheer magnititude or extravagance of the miracle is one of the writer’s interests. We have