John 2:18
The Jewish leaders reacted, asking him, “What right do you have to do this? Show us some miraculous sign to prove it!”
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19Jesus replied, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I'll raise it up!”
Cross References
Matthew 16:1The Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, demanding that he show them a sign from heaven.
Mark 8:11The Pharisees arrived and began to argue with him, wanting him to give them a miraculous sign from heaven, trying to get him to prove himself.
Luke 11:29As people crowded around him, Jesus began telling them, “This is an evil generation for it's looking for some miraculous sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.
John 1:25asked him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you're not the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?”
Acts 4:7They brought Peter and John before them and asked, “By what power or by whose authority have you done this?”
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 →