John 2:19

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¹⁷ And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

¹⁸ Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

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

²¹ But he spake of 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 temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
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Mark 15:29
And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
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Matthew 27:40
And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
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Matthew 26:60–61
But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
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Matthew 12:40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
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John 10:17–18
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
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Acts 2:32
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
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