John 2:21

But He spoke concerning the temple of His body.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20Then the Jews said, Forty and six years was this temple being built, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

22Then when He arose from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said these things, and believed the Scripture and words which Jesus spoke.

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Cross References

John 1:14The Word was made flesh, and tented among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten with the Father), full of grace and truth.

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

Ephesians 2:20having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone,

Colossians 2:9because in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

1 Peter 2:4Unto whom going forth, to a living stone, indeed rejected by men, but elect with God, 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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