John 2:21
19 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?”
But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.
22 After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
23 While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
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
- But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.
- KJV
- But he spake of the temple of his body.
- WEB
- But he spoke of the temple of his body.
- ASV
- But he spake of the temple of his body.
- DARBY
- But *he* spoke of the temple of his body.
- BLB
- But He was speaking about the temple of His body.
- ÅB
- Men han talte om sitt legemes tempel.
- OTB
- Men han refererte til tempelet i sin kropp.
- B1930
- Men han talte om sitt legemes tempel.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 6:19
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
Read in contextColossians 1:19
For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,
Read in contextEphesians 2:20–22
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
Read in contextColossians 2:9
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
Read in contextHebrews 8:2
and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.
Read in contextJohn 1:14
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Read in context2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
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