John 2:19
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
John 2:19 in other translations
| BSB | Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” |
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| 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. |
| YLT | Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, 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. |
| BBE | And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days. |
| Webster | Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. |
What does John 2:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on John 2:18-22
18-22. What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?--Though the act and the words of Christ, taken together, were sign enough, they were unconvinced: yet they were awed, and though at His very next appearance at Jerusalem they "sought to kill Him" for speaking of "His Father" just as He did now (Joh 5:18), they, at this early stage, only ask a sign.
Barnes' Notes
Here was therefore a distinct prediction both of his death and the cause of it. The word temple, or dwelling, was not unfrequently used by the Jews to denote the body as being the residence of the spirit, 2Cor 5:1. Christians are not unfrequently called the temple of God, as being those in whom the Holy Spirit dwells on earth, 1Cor 3:16,17; 1Cor 6:19, 2Cor 6:16. Our Saviour called his body a temple in accordance with the common use of language, and more particularly because in him the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily, Col 2:9. The temple at Jerusalem was the appropriate dwelling-place of God. His visible presence was there peculiarly manifested, 2Chr 36:15, Ps 76:2. As the Lord Jesus was divine--as the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in him--so his body might be called a temple.
"You are now profaners of the temple of God. You have
defiled the sanctuary; you have made it a place of
traffic. You have also despised my authority, and
been unmoved by the miracles which I have already
wrought. But your wickedness will not end here.
You will oppose me more and more; you will reject
and despise me, until in your wickedness you will
take my life and destroy my body."
In three days I will raise it up. The Jews had asked a miracle of him in proof of his authority--that is, a proof that he was the Messiah. He tells them that a full and decided proof of that would be his resurrection from the dead. Though they would not be satisfied by any other miracle, yet by this they ought to be convinced that he came from heaven, and was the long-expected Messiah. To the same evidence that he was the Christ he refers them on other occasions. See Mt 12:38,39. Thus early did he foretell his death and resurrection, for at the beginning of his work he had a clear foresight of all that was to take place. This knowledge shows clearly that he came from heaven, and it evinces, also, the extent of his love--that he was willing to come to save us, knowing clearly what it would cost him. Had he come without such an expectation of suffering, his love might have been far less; but when he fully knew all that was before him, when he saw that it would involve him in contempt and death, it shows compassion "worthy of a God" that he was willing to endure the load of all our sorrows, and die to save us from death everlasting. When Jesus says, "I will raise it up," it is proof, also, of divine power. A mere man could not say this. No deceased man can have such power over his body; and there must have been, therefore, in the person of Jesus a nature superior to human to which the term "I" could be applied, and which had power to raise the dead--that is, which was divine.
(q) "Destroy this temple" Mt 26:61, 27:40
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on John 2:12-22
The first public work in which we find Christ engaged, was driving from the temple the traders whom the covetous priests and rulers encouraged to make a market-place of its courts. Those now make God's house a house of merchandise, whose minds are filled with cares about worldly business when attending religious exercises, or who perform Divine offices for love of gain. Christ, having thus cleansed the temple, gave…
John 2:19 in the original Greek
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Cross references for John 2:19
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- Matthew 26:60-61
But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
- 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.
- 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.
- John 10:17-18
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
- Acts 2:32
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
- Acts 2:24
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
- Acts 3:15
And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
- 1 Peter 3:18
For 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:
- Mark 8:31
And 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.
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Context
- John 2:18
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
- John 2:19
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
- John 2:20
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
John 2:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Respondió Jesús, y díjoles: Destruid este templo, y en tres días lo levantaré. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Jésus répondit et leur dit: Détruisez ce temple, et en trois jours je le relèverai. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jesus antwortete und sprach zu ihnen: Brechet diesen Tempel ab, und in drei Tagen werde ich ihn aufrichten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Respondit Jesus, et dixit eis: Solvite templum hoc, et in tribus diebus excitabo illud. |