21But he spake of the temple of his body.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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?
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-22)Here we have, I. The short visit Christ made to Capernaum, John 2:12. It was a large and populous city, about a day’s journey from Cana; it is called his own city (Matt. 9:1), because he made it his head-quarters in Galilee, and what little rest he had was there. It was a place of concourse, and therefore Christ chose it, that the fame of his doctrine and miracles might thence spread the further.…
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