John 2:21

But the Temple Jesus was speaking of was his body.

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In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20“It took forty-six years to build this Temple, and you're going to raise it up in three days?” the Jewish leaders replied.

22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered what he said, and so they believed in Scripture and Jesus' own words.

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Cross References

John 1:14The Word became human and lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory of the Father's one and only Son, full of grace and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is within you, that you received from God?

Ephesians 2:20that's being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone.

Colossians 2:9For the fullness of God's divine nature lives in Christ in bodily form,

1 Peter 2:4As you come to him—the living stone that people rejected as useless, but is chosen by God and precious to him—

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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