John 2:21

Amplified Bible

But He was speaking of the temple which was His body.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

King James Version (1611)
But he spake of the temple of his body.

King James Version
But he spake of the temple of his body.

English Standard Version
But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

New American Standard Bible
But He was speaking about the temple of His body.

New Century Version
(But the temple Jesus meant was his own body.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

Legacy Standard Bible
But He was speaking about the sanctuary of His body.

Berean Standard Bible
But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.

Contemporary English Version
But Jesus was talking about his body as a temple.

Complete Jewish Bible
But the "temple" he had spoken of was his body.

Darby Translation
But *he* spoke of the temple of his body.

Easy-to-Read Version
But the temple Jesus meant was his own body.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But he spake of the temple of his bodie.

George Lamsa Translation
But he spoke concerning the temple of his body.

Good News Translation
But the temple Jesus was speaking about was his body.

Lexham English Bible
But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

Literal Translation
But He spoke about the sanctuary of His body.

American Standard Version
But he spake of the temple of his body.

Bible in Basic English
But his words were about that holy building which was his body.

Hebrew Names Version
But he spoke of the temple of his body.

International Standard Version
But the sanctuary he was speaking about was his own body.1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Colossians 2:9; Hebrews 8:2;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
But he spake of the temple of his body.

Murdock Translation
But he spake of the temple of his body.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But he spake of the temple of his body.

English Revised Version
But he spake of the temple of his body.

World English Bible
But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this;

Weymouth's New Testament
But He was speaking of the Sanctuary of His body.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But he seide of the temple of his bodi.

Update Bible Version
But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Webster's Bible Translation
But he spoke of the temple of his body.

New English Translation
But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

New King James Version
But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

New Living Translation
But when Jesus said "this temple," he meant his own body.

New Life Bible
Jesus was speaking of His body as the house of God.

New Revised Standard
But he was speaking of the temple of his body.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, he, was speaking concerning the shrine of his body.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Revised Standard Version
But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But he spake of the temple of his body.

Young's Literal Translation
but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But he spake of ye teple of his body.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but by the temple he meant his body.

Simplified Cowboy Version
But they didn't realize that when he said "this church", he was talking about his body.

Contextual Overview

¹²After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and brothers and His disciples; and they stayed there a few days. ¹³Now the Passover of the Jews was approaching, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴And in the temple [enclosure] He found the people who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at their tables. ¹⁵He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; ¹⁶then to those who sold the doves He said, "Take these things away! Stop making My Father's house a place of commerce!" ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written [in the Scriptures], "ZEAL (love, concern) FOR YOUR HOUSE [and its honor] WILL CONSUME ME." ¹⁸Then the Jews retorted, "What sign (attesting miracle) can You show us as [proof of] your authority for doing these things?" ¹⁹Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." ²⁰Then the Jews replied, "It took forty-six years to build this temple, and You will raise it up in three days?" ²¹But He was speaking of the temple which was His body.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he: John 1:14,*Gr: Colossians 1:19, Colossians 2:9, Hebrews 8:2

temple: 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 2 Corinthians 6:16, Ephesians 2:20-22, 1 Peter 2:4, 1 Peter 2:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 26:1 - the tabernacle with ten curtains

Cross-References

Genesis 15:12
When the sun was setting, a deep sleep overcame Abram; and a horror (terror, shuddering fear, nightmare) of great darkness overcame him.

1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the jug of water from beside Saul's head, and they left, and no one saw or knew nor did anyone awaken, because they were all sound asleep, for a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

Job 4:13
"Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,

Job 33:15
"In a dream, a vision of the night [one may hear God's voice], When deep sleep falls on men While slumbering upon the bed,

Proverbs 19:15
Laziness casts one into a deep sleep [unmindful of lost opportunity], And the idle person will suffer hunger.

Daniel 8:18
Now as he (Gabriel) was speaking with me, I drifted into a deep sleep (unconsciousness) with my face to the ground; but he touched me and made me stand [where I had stood before].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But he spoke of the temple of his body. Which was the antitype of the material temple; and might well be called so, since the bodies of the saints are called temples, 1 Corinthians 3:16 2 Corinthians 6:16; and the human nature of Christ is called a tabernacle, Hebrews 8:2; and he himself, in prophecy, is said to be למקדש, "for a sanctuary", or temple, Isaiah 8:14, and that because the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily, the train of the divine perfections filled the temple of his human nature, Colossians 2:9. And because here, as in the temple, God grants his presence, and communes with his saints, accepts of their prayers and praises, and all their spiritual sacrifices through him; and who is the oracle, the true "Urim" and "Thummim", by whom he delivers his whole mind and will to his people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 2:21. Of the temple of his body. — Rather, the temple, his body: his body had no particular temple: but it was the temple of his Divinity-the place in which, as in the ancient temple, his Godhead dwelt; See how the Jews perverted these words, Matthew 26:60, and the notes there.