John 2:19

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Jesus replied,“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”

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  • Mark 15:29 : 29 Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying,“Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,
  • Matt 27:40 : 40 and saying,“You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God’s Son, come down from the cross!”
  • Mark 14:58 : 58 “We heard him say,‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.’”
  • Matt 26:60-61 : 60 But they did not find anything, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward 61 and declared,“This man said,‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
  • Rom 8:11 : 11 Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.
  • 1 Cor 15:3-4 : 3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received– that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, 4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,
  • 1 Cor 15:12 : 12 No Resurrection? Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?
  • Col 2:12 : 12 Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
  • Matt 12:40 : 40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
  • Matt 27:63 : 63 and said,“Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said,‘After three days I will rise again.’
  • Mark 8:31 : 31 First Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
  • John 5:19 : 19 So Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.
  • John 10:17-18 : 17 This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again. 18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”
  • John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.
  • Acts 2:32 : 32 This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.
  • Acts 3:15 : 15 You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!
  • Acts 3:26 : 26 God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”
  • Rom 4:24 : 24 but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
  • Rom 6:4 : 4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

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  • John 2:20-22
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    20 Then the Jewish leaders said to him,“This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?”

    21 But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

    22 So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

  • 58 “We heard him say,‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.’”

  • 61 and declared,“This man said,‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”

  • John 2:15-18
    4 verses
    80%

    15 So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

    16 To those who sold the doves he said,“Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

    17 His disciples remembered that it was written,“Zeal for your house will devour me.”

    18 So then the Jewish leaders responded,“What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?”

  • 29 Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying,“Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

  • Mark 13:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 The Destruction of the Temple Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts, one of his disciples said to him,“Teacher, look at these tremendous stones and buildings!”

    2 Jesus said to him,“Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

  • 40 and saying,“You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God’s Son, come down from the cross!”

  • Luke 21:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 The Signs of the End of the Age Now while some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said,

    6 “As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

  • Matt 24:1-2
    2 verses
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    1 The Destruction of the Temple Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings.

    2 And he said to them,“Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

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    45 Cleansing the Temple Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there,

    46 saying to them,“It is written,‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!”

  • 17 If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • 19 and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged severely and crucified. Yet on the third day, he will be raised.”

  • 70%

    12 Cleansing the Temple Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

    13 And he said to them,“It is written,‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are turning it into a den of robbers!”

  • 40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

  • 20 (Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

  • 2 He will restore us in a very short time; he will heal us in a little while, so that we may live in his presence.

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    15 Cleansing the Temple Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,

    16 and he would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.

    17 Then he began to teach them and said,“Is it not written:‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”

  • 19 Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them,“Are you asking each other about this– that I said,‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’?

  • 42 Jesus said to them,“Have you never read in the scriptures:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

  • 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

  • 63 and said,“Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said,‘After three days I will rise again.’

  • 13 Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

  • 23 They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.” And they became greatly distressed.

  • 38 And the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom.

  • 34 Jesus replied,“Are you saying this on your own initiative, or have others told you about me?”

  • 17 But Jesus looked straight at them and said,“Then what is the meaning of that which is written:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

  • 49 Day after day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me. But this has happened so that the scriptures would be fulfilled.”

  • 7 that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.”

  • 62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

  • 30 But God raised him from the dead,

  • 46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

  • 3 He answered them,“I will also ask you a question, and you tell me:

  • 17 Speaking with Martha and Mary When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

  • 31 for he was teaching his disciples and telling them,“The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.”

  • 9 (For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

  • 11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone.

  • 33 They will flog him severely and kill him. Yet on the third day he will rise again.”

  • 19 Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.