John 2:19 (WEB)
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
Catechism · 2
Jesus and Israel
“Therefore his being put to bodily death” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 2:18-22.
"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"
“He speaks of this unique event as the "sign of Jonah," The sign of the temple: he announces that he will be put to death but rise thereafter on the third day.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mk 10:34; Jn 2:19-22.
Fathers and councils · 69
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus III.32Book III
“…Himself to His disciples, having in their presence foretold to the unbelieving Jews, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again,” and “He spake this of the temple of His body;” the prophets, moreover, having predicted such a result in many other passages of their writings, and in this,…” — editor's note: Cf. John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment - Origen, Against Celsus VIII.19Book VIII
“When He knew that wicked men might aim at the destruction of the temple of God in Him, but that their purposes of destruction would not prevail against the divine power which had built that temple, He says to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it again.…This He said of the temple of His body.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19, 21.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…the shame and embraced suffering in the flesh, did not abandon His free will, saying as He does, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up;” and again, “No man taketh My life from Me; I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again”; and when those who were armed with swords and…” — editor's note: S. John ii. 19
Read the whole comment“Before passing on, however, to what follows, I will further mention the one text, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”” — editor's note: S. John ii. 19
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“He spake this, however,” it is said, “of the temple of His body.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19–21.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…be, He threatened them not; but knowing that their crime was against themselves, He says to them, ‘Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up,’ He, our Saviour, surely shewing thereby that the things about which men busy themselves, carry their dissolution with them.” — editor's note: John ii. 19.
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John Damascene
“Moreover, that the resurrection of the Lord was the union of uncorrupted body and soul (for it was these that had been divided) is manifest: for He said, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” — editor's note: St. John ii. 19.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
“(John 2:19.)” — the author cites it
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X IX.34Conference IX
“For just as the blessed Apostle declares that the Father brought about the resurrection of His body, saying: “And God the Father, who raised Him from the dead,” so also the Son testifies that He Himself will raise again the Temple of His body, saying: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”” — editor's note: S. John ii. 19.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…of the temple distinctly instructs us by His teaching when He says to the murderous Jews, ‘Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.’”” — editor's note: John ii. 19
Read the whole comment“…nature, undergoing no mixture but in either substance appearing one and the same, as it is written ‘Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.’” — editor's note: John ii. 19
Read the whole comment“Or are you going to bring me once more that well worn passage “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up”?” — editor's note: John ii. 19
Read the whole comment- Theodoret of Cyrus, Dialogues (Eranistes) Demonstrations by.1Demonstrations by Syllogisms
“But we have been taught that He dwelt in flesh; for the same Evangelist in another place calls His body a temple.” — editor's note: John ii. 19
Read the whole comment “His own words are “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19
Read the whole comment“Wherefore we acknowledge one Christ, one Son, one Lord; but we do not destroy the union; we believe it to have been made without confusion, in obedience to the word of the Lord to the Jews, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19
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Ambrose of Milan
“We, however, can easily show that the words treat of the Son’s action, for the Son Himself indeed raised His own Body again, as He Himself said: “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it again.”” — editor's note: S. John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“They were with us, but they were not of us, for we are not ashamed to say what the Evangelist John said.” — editor's note: S. John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“And well is He called free, Who had power to raise Himself, according to that which is written: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”” — editor's note: S. John ii. 19.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…He be the Word equal with the Father, could not raise up His own Flesh; hear out of the Gospel, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“Under the figure of a temple He saith to the Jews, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“And they said, “In forty and six years was builded this temple, and wilt Thou in three days raise it up?”” — editor's note: John ii. 19, 20.
Read the whole comment“…again to the temple, where he states that Jesus spoke of the temple of His body in these terms: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up:” in which declaration emphatic intimation is given not only that God was in that temple in the person of the Word that was made flesh, but also that He Himself…” — editor's note: John ii. 12–22.
Read the whole comment“For “He spake this of the temple of His body,” as is declared by the most clear and solid testimony of the Gospel; where He said, “For 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.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19–21
Read the whole comment“For He said of the temple, as the figure of His own body, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it again.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“Whence He said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it again.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“This means that no man but Himself has raised Him, who also said of His own body, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“In this place he has foretold both the first and second advent of Christ: the first, to wit, of which he says, “And He shall come suddenly into His temple;” that is, into His flesh, of which He said in the Gospel, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“God, then, dwells in His temple: not the Holy Spirit only, but the Father also, and the Son, who says of His own body, through which He was made Head of the Church upon earth (“that in all things He might have the pre-eminence):” “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19
Read the whole comment“And the evangelist adds: “But this He spake of the temple of His body.”” — editor's note: Chap. ii. 19, 21.
Read the whole comment“For to this effect he said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”” — editor's note: Chap. ii. 19.
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John Chrysostom
“Yet He nowhere prayed the Father concerning His resurrection, but on the contrary He openly declares, “Destroy this temple and within three days I will raise it up.” ( John. ii. 19.)” — the author cites it
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Read the whole comment“As in another place he doth this very thing, when he perceiveth that something was said in one way, and understood in another; as, “Destroy this Temple,” said Christ, “and in three days I will raise It up” ( c. ii. 19 ); speaking of His Flesh.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For if as yet they had no clear knowledge of the Resurrection, and so knew not what, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up” ( John ii. 19 ), might mean, much more would they be ignorant of what is said here.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For when He said, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up” ( c. ii. 19 ), neither then did the disciples understand.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And this is what He said of Himself, “When I am lifted up, then ye shall know that I Am” ( c. viii. 28 ); and again, “Destroy this Temple” ( c. ii. 19 ); and again, “No sign shall be given unto you but the sign of Jonas.” ( Matt. xii. 39.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Therefore He said elsewhere also, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up:”and, “The days will come when the Bridegroom shall be taken away from them:and here, “There shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet:”…” — editor's note: John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“For, “Destroy,” saith He, “this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up;”and, “This generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas;”and again, “Yet a little while am I with you, and ye shall seek me, and shall not find me.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“But there He answers them, saying, “Destroy this temple, and I in three days will raise it up,”whereas here He drives them into a difficulty.” — editor's note: John ii. 18, 19. [The emphatic ἐγ is inserted here.—R.]
Read the whole comment“And indeed He had said, “In three days,” but He said not, “I will destroy,” but, “Destroy,” and not about that temple but about His own body.” — editor's note: See John ii. 19–21.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“He looks down upon His enemies to whom He once said: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will build it up.” — editor's note: St. John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“This command have I received from the Father: and again, when asked to shew a sign concerning Himself, that they might believe in Him, He says of the Temple of His body, Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” — editor's note: Ib. ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“If to His body, are they ignorant that the Holy One should not see corruption, that within three days He was to revive the temple of His body?” — editor's note: St. John ii. 19; St. Matt. xxvi. 16, xxvii. 40; St. Mark xiv. 58.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“The Lord’s words were, “Destroy this temple;” [John 2:19] this they make into, I can destroy the Temple of God.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
“He had indeed told it, and to many, but obscurely, as in that, “Destroy this temple;” [John 2:19] and again, “There shall no sign be given it but the sign of Jonas the Prophet.” [Matt 12:39] But now He imparted it clearly to His disciples.” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“For this the Lord Himself also had announced, saying to the Jews, “destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”” — editor's note: S. John ii. 19.
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Tertullian
““Overturn this temple, and I will in three days’ space resuscitate it.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“This destiny of the body the Lord also described, when, clothed as He was in its very substance, He said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19.
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Clement of Alexandria
“But He spake of the temple of His body.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19–21.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And “After three days another shall be raised up without hands.”” — editor's note: John ii. 19; Mark xiv. 58.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“The Saviour raised up and showed His holy flesh like a temple, and he will raise a temple of stone in Jerusalem.” — editor's note: John ii. 19.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
The Jews seeing Jesus thus acting with power, and having heard Him say, Make not My Father’s house an house of merchandize, ask of Him a sign; Then answered the Jews and said unto Him, What sign shewest Thou unto us,…
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But were signs necessary for His putting a stop to evil practices? Was not the having such zeal for the house of God, the greatest sign of His virtue? They did not however remember the prophecy, but asked for a sign;…
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For inasmuch as they sought a sign from our Lord of His right to eject the customary merchandize from the temple, He replied, that that temple signified the temple of His Body, in which was no spot of sin; as if He…
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He does not however provoke them to commit murder, by saying, Destroy; but only shews that their intentions were not hidden from Him. Let the Arians observe how our Lord, as the destroyer of death, says, I will raise…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The Father also raised Him up again; to Whom He says, Raise Thou me up, and I shall reward them. (Ps. 41:10) But what did the Father do without the Word? As then the Father raised Him up, so did the Son also: even as…
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But why does He give them the sign of His resurrection? Because this was the greatest proof that He was not a mere man; shewing, as it did, that He could triumph over death, and in a moment overthrow its long tyranny.
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on John
Both those, i. e. both the Body of Jesus and the temple, seem to me to be a type of the Church, which with lively stones is built up into a spiritual house, into an holy priesthood; according to St. Paul, Ye are the…
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The Jews, supposing that He spoke of the material temple, scoffed: Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will Thou rear it up in three days?
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
Note, that they allude here not to the first temple under Solomon, which was finished in seven years, but to the one rebuilt under Zorobabel. (Ezra 4:5) This was forty-six years building, in consequence of the…
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Or some will reckon perhaps the forty and six years from the time that David consulted Nathan the Prophet on the building of the temple. David from that time was busy in collecting materials. But perhaps the number…
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Or it may be that this number fits in with the perfection of the Lord’s Body. For six times forty-six are two hundred and seventy-six days, which make up nine months and six days, the time that our Lord’s Body was…
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The process of human conception is said to be this. The first six days produce a substance like milk, which in the following nine is converted into blood; in twelve more is consolidated, in eighteen more is formed…
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Or thus, if you take the four Greek words, anatole, the east; dysis, the west; arctos, the north; and mesembria, the south; the first letters of these words make Adam. And our Lord says that He will gather together…
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From this Apollinarius draws an heretical inference: and attempts to shew that Christ’s flesh was inanimate, because the temple was inanimate. In this way you will prove the flesh of Christ to be wood and stone,…
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Our Lord’s Body is called the temple, because as the temple contained the glory of God dwelling therein, so the Body of Christ, which represents the Church, contains the Only-Begotten, Who is the image and glory of God.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
TWO. things there were in the mean time very far removed from the comprehension of the disciples: one, the resurrection of our Lord’s Body: the other, and the greater mystery, that it was God who dwelt in that Body:…
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For before the resurrection they did not understand the Scriptures, because they had not yet received the Holy Ghost, Who was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:39) But on the day of the…
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But (in the mystical interpretation) we shall attain to the full measure of faith, at the great resurrection of the whole body of Jesus, i. e. His Church; inasmuch as the faith which is from sight, is very different…
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