John 2:19

Christian Standard Bible ®

Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple,

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Destroy this temple, and in three dayes I will raise it vp.

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

English Standard Version
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

New American Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

New Century Version
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will build it again in three days."

Amplified Bible
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

Legacy Standard Bible
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up."

Berean Standard Bible
Jesus answered, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again."

Contemporary English Version
"Destroy this temple," Jesus answered, "and in three days I will build it again!"

Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again."

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus answered, "Destroy this temple and I will build it again in three days."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Destroy this Temple, and in three daies I will raise it vp againe.

George Lamsa Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, Tear down this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "Tear down this Temple, and in three days I will build it again."

Lexham English Bible
Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!"

Literal Translation
Jesus said to them, Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.

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

Bible in Basic English
And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

International Standard Version
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will rebuild it."Matthew 26:61; 27:40; Mark 14:58; 15:29;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Jeshu answered, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it.

Murdock Translation
Jesus answered, and said to them: Demolish this temple, and in three days I will again erect it.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto them: Destroy this temple, & in three dayes I wyll reare it vp.

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

World English Bible
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up in three days.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Demolish this Sanctuary," said Jesus, "and in three days I will rebuild it."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Jhesus answerde, and seide to hem, Vndo ye this temple, and in thre daies Y schal reise it.

Update Bible Version
Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Webster's Bible Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

New English Translation
Jesus replied, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again."

New King James Version
Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

New Living Translation
"All right," Jesus replied. "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

New Life Bible
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this house of God and in three days I will build it again."

New Revised Standard
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Jesus answered, and said unto them - Take down this shrine, and, in three days, will I raise it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up.

Revised Standard Version
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iesus answered and sayd vnto them: destroye this temple and in thre dayes I will reare it vp agayne.

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus answered & sayde vnto the: Breake downe this temple, and in thre dayes wil I set it vp agayne.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Jesus answered them, saying, destroy this temple, and within three days I will raise it up.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus said, "Knock this church down, and I'll rebuild it in three days."

Contextual Overview

¹²After this, he went down to Capernaum, together with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there only a few days. ¹³The Jewish Passover was near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴In the temple he found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and he also found the money changers sitting there. ¹⁵After making a whip out of cords, he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables. ¹⁶He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s ¹⁷And his disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal for your house will consume me. ¹⁸So the Jews replied to him, “What sign will you show us for doing these things?” ¹⁹Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple,²⁰Therefore the Jews said, “This temple took forty-six years to build, and will you raise it up in three days?” ²¹But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Destroy: Matthew 26:60, Matthew 26:61, Matthew 27:40, Mark 14:58, Mark 15:29

and in: Matthew 12:40, Matthew 27:63

I will: John 5:19, John 10:17, John 10:18, John 11:25, Mark 8:31, Acts 2:24, Acts 2:32, Acts 3:15, Acts 3:26, Romans 4:24, Romans 6:4, Romans 8:11, 1 Corinthians 15:3, 1 Corinthians 15:4, 1 Corinthians 15:12, Colossians 2:12, 1 Peter 3:18

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:1 - build 1 Chronicles 17:12 - He shall 2 Chronicles 7:16 - eyes Psalms 56:5 - they Zechariah 6:12 - he shall build Matthew 12:6 - General Matthew 16:21 - and be Matthew 17:23 - the third Matthew 28:6 - as Mark 9:10 - what Mark 9:31 - The Son Mark 16:6 - he is risen Luke 9:44 - for Luke 24:8 - General John 11:17 - four Acts 13:30 - General Hebrews 9:24 - the holy Revelation 21:22 - the Lamb

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”

Genesis 2:4
These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Genesis 2:8
The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had formed.

Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man no helper was found corresponding to him.

Genesis 2:22
Then the Lord God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

Genesis 2:23
And the man said:

Genesis 6:20
Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive.

Genesis 9:2
The fear and terror of you will be in every living creature on the earth, every bird of the sky, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are placed under your authority.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Jesus answered and said unto them,.... In a dark and enigmaticai way, though very properly and pertinently; since it was with respect to the temple, and his power over it, and right to purge it, that a sign was required of him:

destroy this temple; pointing, as it were, with his finger to his body; for of that he spake, as appears from John 2:21, the dissolution of which, by death he means, the separation of his soul from his body, though not of either from his divine person: and it is to be understood, not as a command, or a grant, or as an exhortation, and advice to them, to kill his body; but rather as a prophecy of what they would do; or as putting the case, that should they, as he knew they would, destroy his body, then says he, as a sign of having a power to do what I have done,

in three days I will raise it again; by which he would appear to be the Son of God, with power, that had power of laying down his life, and taking it up again; and is the very sign, namely, his resurrection from the dead on the third day, he gives the Jews, when they sought one of him at another time, and upon another occasion.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Destroy this temple - The evangelist informs us John 2:21 that by “temple,” here, he meant his body. It is not improbable that he pointed with his finger to his body as he spoke. The word “destroy,” used here in the “imperative,” has rather the force of the “future.” Its meaning may thus be expressed: “You are now profaners of the temple of God. You have defiled the sanctuary; you have made it a place of traffic. You have also despised my authority, and been unmoved by the miracles which I have already performed. But your wickedness will not end here. You will oppose me more and more; you will reject and despise me, until in your wickedness you will take my life and ‘destroy’ my body.” Here was therefore a distinct prediction both of his death and the cause of it. The word “temple,” or “dwelling,” was not unfrequently used by the Jews to denote the “body” as being the residence of the spirit, 2 Corinthians 5:1. Christians are not unfrequently called the temple of God, as being those in whom the Holy Spirit dwells on earth, 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 2 Corinthians 6:16. Our Saviour called his body a temple in accordance with the common use of language, and more particularly because “in him the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily,” Colossians 2:9. The temple at Jerusalem was the appropriate dwelling-place of God. His visible presence was there especially manifested, 2 Chronicles 36:15; Psalms 76:2. As the Lord Jesus was divine - as the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in him so his body might be called a “temple.”

In three days I will raise it up - The Jews had asked a “miracle” of him in proof of his authority that is, a proof that he was the Messiah. He tells them that a full and decided proof of that would be his “resurrection from the dead.” Though they would not be satisfied by any other miracle, yet by this they ought to be convinced that he came from heaven, and was the long-expected Messiah. To the same evidence that he was the Christ he refers them on other occasions. See Matthew 12:38-39. Thus early did he foretell his death and resurrection, for at the beginning of his work he had a clear foresight of all that was to take place. This knowledge shows clearly that he came from heaven, and it evinces, also, the extent of his love that he was “willing” to come to save us, knowing clearly what it would cost him. Had he come “without” such an expectation of suffering, his love might have been far less; but when he fully knew all that was before him, when he saw that it would involve him in contempt and death, it shows compassion “worthy of a God” that he was willing to endure the load of all our sorrows, and die to save us from death everlasting. When Jesus says, “‘I’ will raise it up,” it is proof, also, of divine power. A mere “man” could not say this. No deceased “man” can have such power over his body; and there must have been, therefore, in the person of Jesus a nature superior to human to which the term “I” could be applied, and which had power to raise the dead - that is, which was divine.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 2:19. Destroy this temple — τον ναον τουτον, This very temple; perhaps pointing to his body at the same time.