John 2:21

But he spake of the temple of his body.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20The Jews said to him: Forty and six years, this temple was building; and wilt thou build it again in three days?

22And when he was arisen from the dead, his disciples remembered, that he spoke this: and they believed the scriptures, and the word that Jesus spake.

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Cross References

John 1:14And the: Word became flesh, and tabernacled with us: and we saw his glory, a glory as of the only begotten from the Father, that he was full of grace and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Or know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who abideth in you, whom ye have received from God? And ye are not your own.

Ephesians 2:20And ye are built upon the foundations of the legates and the prophets; and Jesus the Messiah hath become the head of the corner in the edifice.

Colossians 2:9in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Divinity corporeally.

1 Peter 2:4to whom ye have come, because he is a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God elect 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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