John 2:21

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

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But he spake of the temple of his body.

In Context

20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

22When therefore he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this to them: and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken.

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Cross References

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

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

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

Colossians 2:9For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

1 Peter 2:4To whom coming as to a living stone, disallowed 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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