John 2:19
"Destroy this temple," answered Jesus, "and in three days I will raise it up."
Montgomery New Testament
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
18Then the Jews asked Jesus, "What sign are you going to show us, seeing that you do these things?"
Cross References
Matthew 12:40"For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the sea- monster’s belly, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 27:40"You who were going to destroy the Temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"
Mark 8:31and he began to explain to them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests, and the Scribes, and be put to death,and after two days rise again.
Mark 15:29And the passers-by kept jeering at him, wagging their heads and saying. "Ah! you who were to ‘destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days,’ save yourself!
John 10:17"The Father loves me for this, because I am laying down my life that I may take it again.
Acts 2:24but God has raised him to life, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for death to hold 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 →