“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’ ”
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“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’ ”
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We herde him saye: I will destroye this temple made with hondes and with in thre dayes I will bylde another made with out hondes.
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We hearde him say, I will destroy this Temple made with hands, and within three daies I will builde another, made without hands.
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- John 2:19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
- 2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
- Hebrews 9:11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
- Mark 15:29 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
- Acts 7:48 However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
- Hebrews 9:24 For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
- Daniel 2:34 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
- Daniel 2:45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Jesus said, I am,.... That is, the Son…
And Jesus said, I am,.... That is, the Son of God; in proof of which he adds,
and ye shall see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power; that is, of God, who is all power, the Lord God Almighty:
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and coming in the clouds of heaven; either at the destruction of Jerusalem, or at the last day, referring to the prophecy in Dan 7:13; See Gill on Mat 26:64.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain We heard him say - It is observable, that…
We heard him say - It is observable, that the words which they thus misrepresented, were spoken by Christ at least three years before, John ii, 19. Their going back so far to find matter for the charge, was a glorious, though silent attestation of the unexceptionable manner wherein he had behaved, through the whole course of his public ministry.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 58. We heard him say] The statements now made…
58. We heard him say] The statements now made are given with more detail by St Mark than any other of the Evangelists. He alone tells us they said that they had heard our Lord declare, “He would destroy the Temple made with hands and in three days build another made without hands.” In the opposition made with hands and made without hands we have proof of the falseness of the accusation.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (58) This temple.—The word here, as in Mat_26:61 and…
(58) This temple.—The word here, as in Mat_26:61 and Joh_2:19, is that which indicates generally the sanctuary or shrine, and here the “Holy Place” of the Temple.
Made with hands . . . made without hands.—The antithesis is peculiar to St. Mark, but we may, perhaps, trace an echo of it in the “more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands,” of Heb_9:11.
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