John 2:21

But Jesus was speaking of his body as a temple.

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In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20“This Temple,” the authorities replied, “has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to ‘raise it in three days’?”

22Afterward, when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the passage of scripture, and the words which Jesus had spoken.

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Cross References

John 1:14And the Word became human, and lived among us, (We saw his glory – the glory of the Only Son sent from the Father), full of love and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Again, don’t you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you – the Spirit which you have from God?

Ephesians 2:20You have been built up on the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.

Colossians 2:9For in Christ the Godhead in all its fulness dwells incarnate;

1 Peter 2:4Come to him, then, as to a living stone, rejected, indeed, by men, but in God’s eyes 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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