John 2:21

But, he, was speaking concerning the shrine of his body.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20The Jews, therefore, said—In forty and six years, was this shrine built. And, thou, in three days, wilt raise it!

22When, therefore, he had been raised from among the dead, his disciples remembered, that, this, he had been saying; and they believed in the Scripture, and in the word which Jesus had spoken.

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Cross References

John 1:14And, the Word, became, flesh, and pitched his tent among us, and we gazed upon his glory,—a glory, as an Only-begotten from his Father. Full of favour and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Or know ye not that, your body, is, a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own;—

Ephesians 2:20Having been built up on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, there being, for chief corner stone, Jesus Christ himself,—

Colossians 2:9Because, in him, dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead, bodily,

1 Peter 2:4Unto whom coming near, as unto a living stone—by men, indeed, rejected, but, with God, chosen, held in honour,

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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