Stone Jars to Beer Kegs Convertor

I was reflect­ing on the sto­ry of Jesus turn­ing water into wine and began to think about the amount of wine involved. I was try­ing to fig­ure out how to describe it to col­lege stu­dents in a way they could visu­al­ize eas­i­ly.

So what rep­re­sents lots of alco­hol to a stu­dent?

All in unison–“a keg!”

So what is the equiv­a­lent num­ber of kegs to the six stone jars Christ trans­formed (or as a tongue-twister, how many kegs could Christ con­vert)?

A sim­ple inter­net search helped me dis­cov­er that Jesus cre­at­ed about 10 kegs of alco­hol.

Just in case you ever need to know that.

Best quote about the sto­ry:

Nympha pudi­ca Deum vid­it, et erubuit — Richard Crashaw
The mod­est water, see­ing its God, blushed.

Best joke I know about turn­ing water into wine:

Did you hear about the Bap­tist dea­con who was dri­ving along when he was stopped by the local police. See­ing an emp­ty bot­tle on the floor, the offi­cer said, “Sir, have you been drink­ing?”

“No offi­cer, just water,” replied the smil­ing dea­con.

“Then why do I smell alco­hol on your breath?” asked the police­man.

“Praise the Lord!” shout­ed the dea­con. “He’s done it again!”