John 2:19

The resurrection Jesus Christ The cross and atonement

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

¹⁸ On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”

Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

²⁰ “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”

²¹ But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
KJV: Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
WEB: Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
ASV: Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
DARBY: Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
BLB: Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

ÅB: Jesus svarte og sa til dem: Bryt dette tempel ned, og på tre dager skal jeg gjenreise det.
OTB: Jesus svarte: "Riv ned dette tempelet, og på tre dager skal jeg reise det opp."
B1930: Jesus svarte og sa til dem: Bryt dette tempel ned, og på tre dager skal jeg gjenreise det.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Mark 14:58
“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”
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Mark 15:29
And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,
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Matthew 27:40
and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
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Matthew 26:60–61
But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward
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Matthew 12:40
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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Romans 8:11
And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.
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John 10:17–18
The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.
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Acts 2:32
God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
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