John 2:21

Young's Literal Translation

but he spake concerning the sanctuary of 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.

Amplified Bible
But He was speaking of the temple which was His 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.

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

¹² after this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples; and there they remained not many days. ¹³ And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, ¹⁴ and he found in the temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting, ¹⁵ and having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew, ¹⁶ and to those selling the doves he said, `Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.' <sup>17</sup> And his disciples remembered that it is written, `The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;' ¹⁸ the Jews then answered and said to him, `What sign dost thou shew to us -- that thou dost these things?' <sup>19</sup> Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.' ²⁰ The Jews, therefore, said, `Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?' ²¹ but he spake concerning the sanctuary of 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
And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep hath fallen upon Abram, and lo, a terror of great darkness is falling upon him;

1 Samuel 26:12
And David taketh the spear, and the cruse of water at the pillow of Saul, and they go away, and there is none seeing, and there is none knowing, and there is none awaking, for all of them are sleeping, for a deep sleep [from] Jehovah hath fallen upon them.

Job 4:13
In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,

Job 33:15
In a dream -- a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.

Proverbs 19:15
Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

Daniel 8:18
And in his speaking with me, I have been in a trance on my face, on the earth; and he cometh against me, and causeth me to stand on my station,

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.