John 2:18
Then some of the religious authorities asked Jesus, “What sign are you going to show us, since you act in this way?”
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In Context
17His disciples remembered that scripture said – ‘Passion for your house will consume me.’
19“Destroy this temple,” was his answer, “and I will raise it in three days.”
Cross References
Matthew 16:1Here the Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and, to test Jesus, requested him to show them some sign from the heavens.
Mark 8:11Here the Pharisees came out, and began to argue with Jesus, asking him for some sign from the heavens, to test him.
Luke 11:29As the crowds increased, Jesus began to speak, “This generation is a wicked generation. It demands a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah.
John 1:25and their next question was, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ or Elijah or ‘the prophet’?”
Acts 4:7They had Peter and John brought before them, and questioned them. “By what power,” they asked, “Or in whose name have men like you done this thing?”
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 →