John 2:21

However, he was speaking about the temple of his body.

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But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20Then the Jewish authorities said, “This temple was built in forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”

22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the scripture and this statement that Jesus had spoken.

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Cross References

John 1:14The Word became flesh and lived among us. We have seen his glory, glory as of the one and only who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives within you, whom you have from God? Do you not know that you are not your own?

Ephesians 2:20You have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, and Christ Jesus himself was the cornerstone.

Colossians 2:9For in him all the fullness of God lives in bodily form.

1 Peter 2:4Come to him who is a living stone that has been rejected by people, but that has been chosen by God as valuable to 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 →

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