KJV King James Version
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
John 2:19
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
WEB World English Bible
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
ASV American Standard Version
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.’
Surrounding context — John 2
16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.
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?
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?
21 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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἈπεκρίθηG611 · apokrinōto answerἸησοῦςG2424 · IēsousJesusκαὶG2532 · kaiandεἶπενG2036 · eiponto sayαὐτοῖς·G846 · autosit/s/heλύσατεG3089 · luōto looseτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoναὸνG3485 · naostempleτοῦτον,G3778 · ohutosthis/he/she/itκαὶG2532 · kaiandἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongτρισὶνG5140 · treisThreeἡμέραιςG2250 · hēmeradayἐγερῶG1453 · egeirōto ariseαὐτόν.G846 · autosit/s/he
Cross-references
Mark 14:58We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.Mark 15:29And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest [it] in three days,Matthew 27:40And 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.Matthew 26:60-61But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, [yet] found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,Matthew 12:40For 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.Romans 8:11But 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.John 10:17-18Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.Acts 2:32This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.Acts 3:15And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.Acts 2:24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.1 Peter 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:1 Corinthians 15:3-4For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;Romans 6:4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.Mark 8:31And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and [of] the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.John 11:25Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:Acts 3:26Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.Romans 4:24But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;John 5:19Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
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