John 2:19
"Demolish this Sanctuary," said Jesus, "and in three days I will rebuild it."
Weymouth NT (1912)
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
Cross References
Matthew 12:40For just as Jonah was three days in the sea-monster's belly, so will the Son of Man be three days in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 27:40and said, "You who would pull down the Sanctuary and build a new one within three days, save yourself. If you are God's Son, come down from the cross."
Mark 8:31And now for the first time He told them, "The Son of Man must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the Elders and the High Priests and the Scribes, and be put to death, and after two days rise to life."
Mark 15:29And all the passers-by reviled Him. They shook their heads at Him and said, "Ah! you who were for destroying the Sanctuary and building a new one in three days,
John 10:17For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life in order to receive it back again.
Acts 2:24But God has raised Him to life, having terminated the throes of death, for in fact it was not possible for Him to be held fast by death.
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 →