John 2:21

Now he had spoken with reference to the temple of his own body.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20Then said the Jews, This temple has been forty-six years in building, and canst thou rear it up in three days?

22When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had spoken thus unto them; and they believed the scriptures, and the word which Jesus had spoken.

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Cross References

John 1:14And the Word became incarnate, and tabernacled with us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

Ephesians 2:20built up on the foundation of apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

Colossians 2:9for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily;

1 Peter 2:4Whom approaching, as the living stone, rejected indeed of men, but elect of God, and honourable,

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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