John 2:21

But He was speaking about the temple of His body.

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In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20So the Jews said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and you will raise it in three days?!”

22Therefore, when He was raised from among the dead His disciples remembered that He had said this; so they believed the Scripture, even the word that Jesus had spoken.

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Cross References

John 1:14So the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we observed His glory, glory of an Only-begotten, from the Father, full of grace and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Do you not know that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit within 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 cornerstone;

Colossians 2:9Because all the Fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him in bodily form,

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