About this time, at a meeting of the Brethren, when there were about a hundred and twenty present, Peter rose to speak.

'Four hundred and forty gallons of oil,' answered the man. 'Here is your agreement,' he said; 'sit down at once and make it two hundred and twenty.'

And round the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these I saw twenty-four Councillors sitting clothed in white robes; and on their heads they had crowns of gold.

"Twenty pounds' worth of bread," answered Philip, "would not be enough for each of them to have a little."

There were standing there six stone water-jars, in accordance with the Jewish rule of 'purification,' each holding twenty or thirty gallons.