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John 2:19

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Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
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  1. Mark 14:58Rank 1 from verse 19
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    58We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

  2. Mark 15:29Rank 2 from verse 19
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    29And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,

  3. Matthew 27:40Rank 3 from verse 19
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    40And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

  4. Matthew 26:60–61Rank 4 from verse 19
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    60But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

    61And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

  5. Matthew 12:40Rank 5 from verse 19
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    40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

  6. Romans 8:11Rank 6 from verse 19
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    11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

  7. John 10:17–18Rank 7 from verse 19
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    17Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

    18No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

  8. Acts 2:32Rank 8 from verse 19
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    32This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.

  9. Acts 2:24Rank 9 from verse 19
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    24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

  10. Acts 3:15Rank 10 from verse 19
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    15And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

  11. 1 Peter 3:18Rank 11 from verse 19
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    18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

  12. 1 Corinthians 15:3–4Rank 12 from verse 19
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    3For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

    4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

  13. John 11:25Rank 13 from verse 19
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    25Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

  14. Mark 8:31Rank 14 from verse 19
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    31And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

  15. Romans 6:4Rank 15 from verse 19
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    4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

  16. 1 Corinthians 15:12Rank 16 from verse 19
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    12Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

  17. Acts 3:26Rank 17 from verse 19
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    26Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

  18. Colossians 2:12Rank 18 from verse 19
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    12Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

  19. John 5:19Rank 19 from verse 19
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    19Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

  20. Matthew 27:63Rank 20 from verse 19
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    63Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

  21. Romans 4:24Rank 21 from verse 19
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    24But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

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John 2:19

COMBINED MEANING

answered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of answer, meaning to reply, respond, or give account.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

destroy

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Sense 1: To ruin, demolish, consume, or lay waste. Sense 2: To kill or cut off. Sense 3: To cause a thing's structure, use, activity, or present condition to cease.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

temple

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Sense 1: A sacred house, building, or place devoted to the worship or presence of God or an idol. Sense 2: Christ's body, expressly called the temple of his body. Sense 3: A believer's body, or believers collectively, called the temple of God or of the Holy Ghost. Sense 4: The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb, expressly called the temple of the city.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

raise

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Sense 1: To rouse; to stir up. Sense 2: To lift or set upright. Sense 3: To exalt. Sense 4: To build or produce. Sense 5: To call forth. Sense 6: To restore to life.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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2:18¶ Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?

2:19Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

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2:20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

2:21But he spake of the temple of his body.

2:22When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

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