John 2:19

Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

In Context

18The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?

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

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Cross References

Matthew 12:40For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. Three days, etc... Not complete days and nights; but part of three days, and three nights taken according to the way that the Hebrews counted their days and nights, viz., from evening to evening.

Matthew 27:40And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days dost rebuild it: save thy own self. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

Mark 8:31And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the ancients and by the high priests and the scribes: and be killed and after three days rise again.

Mark 15:29And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads and saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days buildest it up again:

John 10:17Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

Acts 2:24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be holden by it. Having loosed the sorrow, etc... Having overcome the grievous pains of death and all the power of hell.

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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