John 2:19-22

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

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

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 2:20

Forty and six years was this temple in building - The temple of which the Jews spake was begun to be rebuilt by Herod the Great, in the 18th year of his reign: Josephus. Ant. b. xv. c. 11, s. 1; and xx. c. 9, s. 5, 7. But though he finished the main work in nine years and a half, yet some additional buildings or repairs were constantly carried on for many years afterwards. Herod began the work sixteen years before the birth of our Lord: the transactions which are here related took place in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 ; (note), and the notes there. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 2:22

Remembered that he had said this unto them - Αυτοις , to them, is wanting in AEHLMS, Matt. BV, upwards of one hundred others; both the Syriac; Persic, Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Slavonic, Vulgate, and Itala. Griesbach has left it out of the text. They believed the scripture - The scripture which the evangelist immediately refers to may have been Psalm 16:10 . Compare this with Acts 2:31 , Acts 2:32 , and with Acts 13:35-37 . See also Psalm 2:7 , and compare it with ... read more

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