John 2:19
Jesus answered, and said to them: Demolish this temple, and in three days I will again erect it.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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
18But the Jews replied, and said to him: What sign showest thou to us, since thou doest these things?
Cross References
Matthew 12:40For as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights; so will the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.
Matthew 27:40and said: Destroyer of the temple, and builder of it in three days, deliver thyself; if thou art the Son of God, and come down from the cross.
Mark 8:31And he began to teach them, that the Son of man was about to suffer much, and be rejected by the Elders and by the chief priests and by the Scribes, and be killed, and rise on the third day.
Mark 15:29And they also that passed by, reviled him; and, nodding their heads, they said: Aha, thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days,
John 10:17For this cause my Father loveth me, that I lay down my life, to resume it again.
Acts 2:24But God hath resuscitated him, and hath loosed the cords of the grave; because it could not be, that he should be held in the grave.
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 →