John 2:21

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

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

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Cross References

John 1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own ?

Ephesians 2:20Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

Colossians 2:9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead corporeally;

1 Peter 2:4Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and made honourable by God:

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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