John Trapp on John 2:6

Verſe 6. After the manner of the purifying, &c. But who required theſe things at their hands? Men are apt to over-do in externals. The Devil ſtrove to bring this ſuperſtition into the Chriſtian Church, by the heretick Ebion, and hath done it by the Pſeudo-Catholikes, with their luſtrall-water, and ſprinkling of ſepulchres; for the riſe whereof, Baronius refers us not to the Jewes, Baron. Annal. but to Juvenals ſixth Satyre.

Containing two or three firkins] For oſtentation ſake. Superſtition, is pompous and ambitious.