John 2:21
But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.
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- 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
- John 1:14 : 14 Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory– the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.
- 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
- Col 2:9 : 9 For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,
- Heb 8:2 : 2 a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.
- 1 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 A Living Stone, a Chosen People So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight, 5 you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,“I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
- Eph 2:20-22 : 20 because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
- Col 1:19 : 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son
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16To those who sold the doves he said,“Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”
17His disciples remembered that it was written,“Zeal for your house will devour me.”
18So then the Jewish leaders responded,“What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?”
19Jesus replied,“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”
20Then 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?”
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58“We heard him say,‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.’”
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22So 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.
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61and declared,“This man said,‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
- Luke 21:5-62 verses74%
5The 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!”
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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.)
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29Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying,“Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,
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6I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.
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- 1 Cor 3:16-172 verses71%
16Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.
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40When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
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9(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)
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21In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
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45Cleansing the Temple Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there,
46saying to them,“It is written,‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!”
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13And 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!”
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17Then 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!”
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33(Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)
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62Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?
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30But God raised him from the dead,
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1The 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!”
2Jesus said to him,“Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”
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59Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
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40and 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!”
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29When John’s disciples heard this, they came and took his body and placed it in a tomb.
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6He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,
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8Then the women remembered his words,
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63and said,“Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said,‘After three days I will rise again.’
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36For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled,“Not a bone of his will be broken.”
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45When Pilate was informed by the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
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17Then some of his disciples said to one another,“What is the meaning of what he is saying,‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and,‘because I am going to the Father’?”
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38And the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom.
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13Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
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21And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and the one who dwells in it.
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22The Lord’s Supper While they were eating, he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to them, and said,“Take it. This is my body.”
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16(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)
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28Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.
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19Jesus 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’?
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1Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said,“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you–