John 2:21

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20Then said the Jews, Forty-six years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

22When therefore he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken.

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Cross References

John 1:14And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we beheld his glory, a glory as of an only begotten of a father.

1 Corinthians 6:19Know ye not, that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

Ephesians 2:20and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner-stone;

Colossians 2:9For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,

1 Peter 2:4To whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but in the sight of God chosen, honored,

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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