Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
- KJV Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
- BSB Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
- NKJV Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
- NLT “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
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Quick answer
Jesus answers, 'Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up,' speaking of His body. He points to His death and resurrection as the ultimate sign.
Overview
Jesus gives a deliberately veiled saying: the 'temple' to be destroyed and raised is His own body. His resurrection on the third day is the definitive sign authenticating His authority. The statement also hints that in the risen Christ, God's true dwelling with His people replaces the physical temple, fulfilling its purpose.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 21
- Mark 14:58“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”
- Mark 15:29Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
- Matt 27:40and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
- Matt 26:60–61and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,
- Matt 12:40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
- Rom 8:11But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
- John 10:17–18Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
- Acts 2:32This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
- Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
- Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
- 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
- John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
- Rom 6:4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
- Mark 8:31He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
- 1 Cor 15:3–4For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
- John 5:19Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
- Rom 4:24but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
- Col 2:12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
- Matt 27:63saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’
- Acts 3:26God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”
- 1 Cor 15:12Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
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