Joh 2:19-22 | Family | STEP | This temple ; meaning his body, verse . I will raise it up ; Jesus Christ had power to raise his own dead body to life, and actually did raise it on the third day after his death, according to his prediction. .

John 2:19-22

This temple; meaning his body, verse Joh 2:21.

I will raise it up; Jesus Christ had power to raise his own dead body to life, and actually did raise it on the third day after his death, according to his prediction. Mt 12:40; Ro 1:4. Forty and six years; it was so many years since Herod the Great had commenced repairing, or, more properly, rebuilding the temple, sixteen years before the Saviour's birth. During this period additions, more or less, had been from time to time made to it. To this temple they wrongly applied the Saviour's words. The same misapplication of his words they made when they accused him before Pilate. Mt 26:61; Mr 14:58. The scripture; those passages which foretold his death and resurrection. Ps 16:10,11; Ac 2:22-36.