John 2:21

But the temple He had spoken of was His body.

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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?”

22After He was raised from the dead, His disciples recalled what He had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

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Cross References

John 1:14The Word became flesh and lived among us, and we saw His glory, the glory as of the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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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