John 2:21

But He was speaking about the temple of His body.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

22Therefore, when He was raised up from among the dead, His disciples remembered that He spoke this thing, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken. 1 Jesus at the Passover Feast

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Cross References

John 1:14And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

Ephesians 2:20being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,

Colossians 2:9For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;

1 Peter 2:4Coming to Him as to a living stone, having been rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God 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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