John 2:21
19 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?
But he spake of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
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
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:16
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Read in contextColossians 1:19
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Read in contextEphesians 2:20–22
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Read in contextColossians 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Read in contextHebrews 8:2
A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Read in contextJohn 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Read in context2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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