John 2:21

But that man spoke about the temple of his body.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20The Jews therefore said, This temple was forty-six years being built, and will thou raise it up in three days?

22When therefore he was raised from the dead his disciples remembered that he spoke this, and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus said.

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Cross References

John 1:14And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own,

Ephesians 2:20Which was built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner,

Colossians 2:9Because in him all the fullness of the divinity dwells bodily.

1 Peter 2:4Coming to whom, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God chosen, precious,

Matthew Henry on John 2:13-23

Temple-Merchandise Punished; Christ's Death and Resurrection Foretold. 12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. 13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the… Read the whole commentary →

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