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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 2:12-22

Here we have, I. The short visit Christ made to Capernaum, John 2:12. It was a large and populous city, about a day's journey from Cana; it is called his own city (Matt. 9:1), because he made it his head-quarters in Galilee, and what little rest he had was there. It was a place of concourse, and therefore Christ chose it, that the fame of his doctrine and miracles might thence spread the further. Observe, 1. The company that attended him thither: his mother, his brethren, and his disciples.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - John 2:23-25

We have here an account of the success, the poor success, of Christ's preaching and miracles at Jerusalem, while he kept the passover there. Observe, I. That our Lord Jesus, when he was at Jerusalem at the passover, did preach and work miracles. People's believing on him implied that he preached; and it is expressly said, They saw the miracles he did. He was now in Jerusalem, the holy city, whence the word of the Lord was to go froth. His residence was mostly in Galilee, and therefore when he... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 2:17-22

2:17-22 His disciples remembered that there is a scripture which stands written: "For zeal for your house has consumed me." Then the Jews demanded of him: "What sign do you show us to justify your acting in this way?" Jesus answered: "Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up." Then the Jews said: "It has taken forty-six years to build the Temple so far, and are you going to raise it up in three days?" But he was speaking about the temple of his body. So when he was raised from... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 2:23-25

2:23-25 When he was in Jerusalem, at the Passover, at the Feast, many believed in his name, as they saw the signs which he did; but Jesus himself would not entrust himself to them, because he knew them all, and because he had no need that anyone should testify to him what man is like, for he well knew what was in human nature. John does not relate the story of any wonder that Jesus did in Jerusalem at the Passover season; but Jesus did do wonders there; and there were many who, when they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 2:19

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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 2:20

Then said the Jews ,.... Unto him, as read the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions: forty and six years was this temple in building ; which cannot be understood of the temple as built by Solomon, for that was but seven years in building, 1 Kings 6:37 . But rather of the temple, as built by Zorobabel, commonly called the second temple, and might be more properly said to be "this temple"; the calculations of this made by learned men, are various and endless to recite. Daniel's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 2:21

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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 2:22

When therefore he was risen from the dead ,.... Which was three years after this: his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them ; either to the Jews, or to them the disciples; though the phrase "to them", is not in the Vulgate Latin, nor in any of the Oriental versions. The disciples themselves were very dull of understanding the doctrine of Christ's resurrection; and so they continued, notwithstanding he gave them afterwards very full hints of it, until that he was actually... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 2:23

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover ,.... Whither he went, in order to keep it, that being at hand, and now come; see John 2:13 ; in the feast day ; either on the day the Chagigah was eaten, which was sometimes emphatically called "the feast", as in Numbers 28:16 , "and in the fourteenth day of the first month, is the passover of the Lord; and in the fifteenth day of this month, is the feast"; the passover lamb was eaten on the fourteenth day of the month "Nisan", and the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 2:19

Destroy this temple - Τον ναον τουτον , This very temple; perhaps pointing to his body at the same time. read more

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