John 2:21

but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body;

Young's Literal Translation

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 sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'

22when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.

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Cross References

John 1:14And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

1 Corinthians 6:19Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit 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, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner -[stone],

Colossians 2:9because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

1 Peter 2:4to whom coming — a living stone — by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, 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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