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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 2:19 Catholic Bible: Jesus answered, "Tear down this Temple, and in three days I will build it again." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/john/2-19.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/john/2-19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/john/2-19.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/john/1.htm">John</a> > <a href="/gntd/john/2.htm">Chapter 2</a> > Verse 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/2-18.htm" title="John 2:18">◄</a> John 2:19 <a href="../john/2-20.htm" title="John 2:20">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/john/2.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/john/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Jesus answered, "Tear down this Temple, and in three days I will build it again." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/john/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/john/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />"Destroy this temple," Jesus answered, "and in three days I will build it again!" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/john/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/john/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up.</p><p class="hdg">Destroy.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/26-60.htm">Matthew 26:60,61</a> And they found not, whereas many false witnesses had come in. And last of all there came two false witnesses: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/27-40.htm">Matthew 27:40</a> And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days dost rebuild it: save thy own self. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/14-58.htm">Mark 14:58</a> We heard him say, I Will destroy this temple made with hands and within three days I will build another not made with hands.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/15-29.htm">Mark 15:29</a> And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads and saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days buildest it up again:</p><p class="hdg">and in.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/12-40.htm">Matthew 12:40</a> For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/27-63.htm">Matthew 27:63</a> Saying: Sir, we have remembered, that that seducer said, while he was yet alive: After three days I will rise again.</p><p class="hdg">I will.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/5-19.htm">John 5:19</a> Then Jesus answered and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/10-17.htm">John 10:17,18</a> Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/11-25.htm">John 11:25</a> Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/8-31.htm">Mark 8:31</a> And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the ancients and by the high priests and the scribes: and be killed and after three days rise again.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/2-24.htm">Acts 2:24,32</a> Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be holden by it. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/3-15.htm">Acts 3:15,26</a> But the author of life you killed, whom God hath raised from the dead: of which we are witnesses. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/4-24.htm">Romans 4:24</a> But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed, if we believe in him that raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from the dead,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/6-4.htm">Romans 6:4</a> For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/8-11.htm">Romans 8:11</a> And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/15-3.htm">1 Corinthians 15:3,4,12</a> For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../colossians/2-12.htm">Colossians 2:12</a> Buried with him in baptism: in whom also you are risen again by the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him up from the dead.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/3-18.htm">1 Peter 3:18</a> Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/john/2.htm">Jesus Cleanses the Temple</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">18</span>The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things? <span class="reftext">19</span><span class="highl">Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up.</span> <span class="reftext">20</span>The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/16-21.htm">Matthew 16:21</a></span><br />From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples, that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the ancients and scribes and chief priests, and be put to death, and the third day rise again.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/26-61.htm">Matthew 26:61</a></span><br />And they said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God and after three days to rebuild it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/27-40.htm">Matthew 27:40</a></span><br />And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days dost rebuild it: save thy own self. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/14-58.htm">Mark 14:58</a></span><br />We heard him say, I Will destroy this temple made with hands and within three days I will build another not made with hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/15-29.htm">Mark 15:29</a></span><br />And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads and saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days buildest it up again:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/10-18.htm">John 10:18</a></span><br />No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself. And I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This commandment have I received of my Father.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/6-14.htm">Acts 6:14</a></span><br />For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place and shall change the traditions which Moses delivered unto us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/micah/5-14.htm">Demolish</a> <a href="/luke/22-2.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/luke/21-20.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/john/2-13.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/luke/21-28.htm">Raise</a> <a href="/mark/15-29.htm">Rebuild</a> <a href="/luke/23-45.htm">Sanctuary</a> <a href="/john/2-15.htm">Temple</a> <a href="/john/2-12.htm">Three</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_corinthians/10-5.htm">Demolish</a> <a href="/john/10-10.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/john/3-16.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/john/2-22.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/john/2-20.htm">Raise</a> <a href="/john/2-20.htm">Rebuild</a> <a href="/john/2-20.htm">Sanctuary</a> <a href="/john/2-20.htm">Temple</a> <a href="/john/2-20.htm">Three</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/john/2-19.htm">John 2:19 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/john/2-19.htm">John 2:19 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/john/2-19.htm">John 2:19 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/john/2-19.htm">John 2:19 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/john/2-19.htm">John 2:19 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/john/2-19.htm">John 2:19 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/john/2-19.htm">John 2:19 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/john/2-19.htm">John 2:19 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/john/2-19.htm">John 2:19 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: again and answered days Destroy I in it Jesus raise temple them this three up will<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/2-19.htm">NT Gospels: John 2:19 Jesus answered them Destroy this temple (Jhn Jo Jn) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/2-18.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 2:18"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 2:18" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/2-20.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 2:20"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 2:20" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>