John 2:19

King James 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, Ah, 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 be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
• Mark 14:58 : 58 {G3754} 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.
• Matt 26:60-61 : 60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, 61 And said, This fellow 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 dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
• 1 Cor 15:3-4 : 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
• 1 Cor 15:12 : 12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
• Col 2:12 : 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 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:
• Matt 12:40 : 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.
• Matt 27:63 : 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
• Mark 8:31 : 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.
• John 5:19 : 19 Then 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.
• John 10:17-18 : 17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 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.
• John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
• Acts 2:24 : 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 2:32 : 32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
• Acts 3:15 : 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
• Acts 3:26 : 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
• Rom 4:24 : 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
• Rom 6:4 : 4 Therefore 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.