John 2:21

But he spake of the temple of his body.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he spake this; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

Read all of John 2

Cross References

John 1:14And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

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

Colossians 2:9for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

1 Peter 2:4unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study John 2:21