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A Post-Resurrection Insight
Commentators emphasize that this verse is the apostle John's explicit clarification of Jesus's previous statement. The disciples themselves did not understand that Jesus was speaking of his body until after his resurrection. This highlights that spiritual understanding can be a process that unfolds over time.
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AT Robertson
On John 2:21
But he spake of the temple of his body (εκεινος δε ελεγεν περ του ναου του σωματος αυτου). Emphatic he (εκεινος) and imperfect ten…
Charles Ellicott
On John 2:21
19th Century
Bishop
But he spoke.—Literally, was speaking. This is the solution to the enigma as the disciples understood it in the subsequen…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 2:21
The Jews’ demand for a sign is quite in agreement with their general attitude toward Jesus during his lifetime (16:1; Mark 8:11). On th…
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John Gill
On John 2:21
17th Century
Pastor
But he spoke of the temple of his body .
Which was the antitype of the material temple; and might well be called so,…
Matthew Henry
On John 2:12–22
17th Century
Minister
The first public work in which we find Christ engaged was driving the traders from the temple, whom the covetous priests and rulers encouraged to m…