John 2:19

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John 2:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

18 On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”

19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

20 “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”

21 But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.

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But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward

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and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”

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and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

Mark 14:58

“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”

Mark 15:29

And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Matthew 27:63

“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

John 5:19

So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

John 10:17

The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.

John 10:18

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

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Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

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Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and after three days rise again.

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But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.

Acts 2:32

God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

Acts 3:15

You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.

Acts 3:26

When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

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but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

Romans 6:4

We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

Romans 8:11

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

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For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

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that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

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But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

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And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,