Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

John 2:21

But he spake of the temple of his body.

KJV

ἐκεῖνος δὲ ἔλεγεν περὶ τοῦ ναοῦ τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ.

Greek NT

Ille autem dicebat de templo corporis sui.

Vulgate

But he spake of the temple of his body.

ASV

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
ναός
naos
noun · 45×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
σῶμα
soma
noun · 141×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Typology

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§586Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay the Temple-tax, associating with him Peter, whom he had just made the foundation of his future Church.359 He even identified himself with the Temple by presenting himself as God's definitive dwelling-place among men.360 Therefore his being put to bodily death36…
§994But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life."542 It is Jesus himself who on the last day will raise up those who have believed in him, who have eaten his body and drunk his blood.543 Already now in this present life he gives a sign and pledge of this by restoring some of the dead to life,544 announcing thereby …
1. Jesus Comes to Capernaum. Statements of the Four Evangelists Regarding This. After this John 2:12-25 He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples; and there they abode not many days. And the passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and He found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
  • 1Cor 6:19 — What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
  • 1Cor 6:19 — What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
  • 1Pet 2:4 — To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
  • 2Cor 6:16 — And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my p
  • Col 1:19 — For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
  • Col 2:9 — For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
  • Col 2:9 — For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
  • Eph 2:20 — And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
  • Heb 8:2 — A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
  • John 1:14 — And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.