John 2:21

But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”

22After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

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Cross References

John 1:14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

Ephesians 2:20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

Colossians 2:9For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.

1 Peter 2:4As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

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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