John 2:21

But he said it of the temple of his body.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20Therefore said the Jews: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

22When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus spoke.

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Cross References

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

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

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

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

1 Peter 2:4to whom coming, a living stone, disallowed indeed by men, but with God chosen, honored,

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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