John 2:21

But he was speaking about the temple of his body; and when the disciples recalled what he had said,

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20The Jews retorted, "This Temple took forty-six years to build, and will you ‘raise it in three days’?"

22after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

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Cross References

John 1:14And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory - glory as of the Father’s only Son - full of grace and truth.

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

Ephesians 2:20You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone.

Colossians 2:9For it is in Christ that all the fullness of deity dwells bodily,

1 Peter 2:4Come to him then, that living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, 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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