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John 2:20

Verse 20 of 25. The 2nd of 21 chapters in John, in The Gospels.

16To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

17His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

18The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”

19Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

20The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”

21But he spoke of the temple of his body.

22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

23Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

24But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,

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