John 2:19
“Destroy this temple,” was his answer, “and I will raise it in three days.”
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 12:40For, just as Jonah was inside the sea-monster three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 27:40“You who would ‘destroy the Temple and build one in three days,’ save yourself! If you are God’s Son, come down from the cross!”
Mark 8:31Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo much suffering, and that he must be rejected by the elders, and the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law, and be put to death, and rise again after three days.
Mark 15:29The passers-by railed at him, shaking their heads, as they said, “Ah! You who would destroy the Temple and build one in three days,
John 10:17This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life – to receive it again.
Acts 2:24But God released him from the pangs of death and raised him to life, it being impossible for death to retain its hold on 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 →