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<span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>The Jews then said, It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>But He was speaking of the temple of His body. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, observing His signs which He was doing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men, <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/2-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>and because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/john/2.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/john/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/john/2.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />and said to the sellers of doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/john/2.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/john/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And said to them that sold doves, Take these things hence: make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/john/2.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />And to the pigeon-dealers He said, "Take these things away. Do not turn my Father's house into a market."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/john/2.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/john/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and to those selling the doves he said, 'Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.'<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/all_saints_day_and_other_sermons/sermon_xxxv_grace_and_glory.htm">Grace and Glory</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Chapel Royal, Whitehall. 1865. For the consumptive hospital. St John ii. 11. "This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory." This word glory, whether in its Greek or its Roman shape, had a very definite meaning in the days of the Apostles. It meant the admiration of men. The Greek word, as every scholar knows, is derived from a root signifying to seem, and expresses that which a man seems, and appears to his fellow men. The Latin word glory is <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/all_saints_day_and_other_sermons/sermon_xxxv_grace_and_glory.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">All Saints' Day and Other Sermons</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/march_13_morning.htm">March 13 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">There is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.--I TIM. 2:5. Forasmuch . . . as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.--In Christ Jesus, ye who sometime were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace.--By his own blood he entered <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/march_13_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/april_6_morning.htm">April 6 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">He ever liveth to make intercession.--HEB. 7:25. Who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that died . . . who also maketh intercession for us.--Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.--There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Seeing . . . that we have a great <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/april_6_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/september_9_evening.htm">September 9 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">My feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.--PSA. 73:2. When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.--Although he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise: when <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/september_9_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/april_25_morning.htm">April 25 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins--MATT. 1:21. Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins.--That we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.--He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.--Thus it behoved <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/april_25_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/july_8_morning.htm">July 8 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.--I JOHN 1:9. I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.--I have blotted out as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/july_8_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/march_17_evening.htm">March 17 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">In all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.--HEB. 4:15. When the woman saw that the tree was good for food (the lust of the flesh), and that it was pleasant to the eyes (the lust of the eyes), and a tree to be desired to make one wise (the pride of life), she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. When the tempter came to [Jesus], he said, if thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread (the lust of the flesh). <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/march_17_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/april_27_morning.htm">April 27 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Brethren, the time is short.--I COR. 7:29. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.--The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.--As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Death is swallowed up in victory.--Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/april_27_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/august_17_evening.htm">August 17 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place therof shall know it no more.--PSA. 103:15,16. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.--What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.--The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/august_17_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/october_13_evening.htm">October 13 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.--MATT. 6:10. Understanding what the will of the Lord is. It is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. This is the will of God, even your sanctification.--That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.--Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth: wherefore lay apart all filthiness. Be ye holy; for I am holy.--[Jesus] said, Whosoever <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/october_13_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/november_5_evening.htm">November 5 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The fashion of this world passeth away.--I COR. 7:31. All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: but the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning beat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.--For <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/november_5_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/john/2-16.htm">John 2:16 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/john/2-16.htm">John 2:16 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/john/2-16.htm">John 2:16 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/john/2-16.htm">John 2:16 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/john/2-16.htm">John 2:16 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/john/2-16.htm">John 2:16 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/john/2-16.htm">John 2:16 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/2-15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 2:15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 2:15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/2-17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 2:17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 2:17" /></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/john/2-16.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>