John 2:21

But He spoke concerning 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

20The Jews, therefore, said, “This temple was built [in] forty-six years, and will You raise it up in three days?”

22when, then, He was raised out of the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.

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Cross References

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

1 Corinthians 6:19Have you not known that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which you have from God? And you are not your own,

Ephesians 2:20being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being chief corner-[stone],

Colossians 2:9because in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,

1 Peter 2:4to whom coming—a living stone—having indeed been disapproved of by men, but with God—choice [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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