John 2:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Λύσατε τὸν ναὸν τοῦτον, καὶ ἐν τρισὶν ἡμέραις ἐγερῶ αὐτόν.

Transliteration

Apekrithē Iēsous and eipen to them, Lysate the naon this, and in three hēmerais egerō it.

Grammar Details

• *Apekrithē*: aorist, passive, indicative, 3rd singular - answered/replied
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *eipen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd singular - said/told
• *Lysate*: aorist, active, imperative, 2nd plural - destroy/demolish
• *naon*: accusative, masculine, singular - temple/sanctuary
• *hēmerais*: dative, feminine, plural - days
• *egerō*: future, active, indicative, 1st singular - I will raise/rebuild

Word Meanings

• *Apekrithē*: answered/replied/responded
• *Lysate*: destroy/demolish/break down/dissolve
• *naon*: temple/sanctuary/shrine [inner temple building]
• *egerō*: will raise/will rebuild/will resurrect

Referenced Verses

• Mark 15:29 : 29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ha! Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
• Matt 27:40 : 40 and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross.
• Mark 14:58 : 58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.
• Matt 26:60-61 : 60 and they found it not, though many false witnesses came. But afterward came two, 61 and said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
• Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
• 1 Cor 15:3-4 : 3 For I delivered unto you {G1722} first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 and that he was buried; and that he hath been raised on the third day according to the scriptures;
• 1 Cor 15:12 : 12 Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
• Col 2:12 : 12 having been buried with him in baptism, wherein {G1722} ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also {G3958} suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• Matt 12:40 : 40 for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• Matt 27:63 : 63 saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive, After three days I rise again.
• Mark 8:31 : 31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
• John 5:19 : 19 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do {G3756} nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.
• John 10:17-18 : 17 Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 18 No one taketh it away 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 received I from my Father.
• John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live;
• Acts 2:24 : 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
• Acts 2:32 : 32 This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are witnesses.
• Acts 3:15 : 15 and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
• Acts 3:26 : 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Servant, {G2424} sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.
• Rom 4:24 : 24 but for our sake also, unto whom it shall be reckoned, who believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
• Rom 6:4 : 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.