John 2:21

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20Then the Jews said to him: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you rebuild it in three days?

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

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Cross References

John 1:14And the WORD became flesh, and tabernacled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and of truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

Ephesians 2:20having been builded upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone,

Colossians 2:9for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhood bodily.

1 Peter 2:4Coming to him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by man, but in the sight of God, chosen and 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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