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20 Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
21 But He was speaking aof the temple of His body.  
22 Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, aHis disciples remembered that He had said this1 to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.  

The Discerner of Hearts

23 Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the asigns which He did.  
24 But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He aknew all men,  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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John 2:22

believed the scripture—on this subject; that is, what was meant, which was hid from them till then. Mark (1) The act by which Christ signalized His first public appearance in the Temple. Taking "His fan in His hand, He purges His floor," not thoroughly indeed, but enough to foreshadow His last act towards that faithless people—to sweep them out of God's house. (2) The sign of His authority to do this is the announcement, at this first outset of His ministry, of that coming death by their hands, and resurrection by His own, which were to pave the way for their judicial ejection.



John 2:18-22

What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?—Though the act and the words of Christ, taken together, were sign enough, they were unconvinced: yet they were awed, and though at His very next appearance at Jerusalem they "sought to kill Him" for speaking of "His Father" just as He did now (John 5:18), they, at this early stage, only ask a sign.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 2:22:

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