John 2:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹But he spake of the temple of his body.

John 2:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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?
1 Corinthians 3:16
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Colossians 1:19
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Colossians 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Hebrews 8:2
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.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

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.