Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, was making reference to his physical body. He knew that he would be crucified and that he would rise from the dead on the third day in fulfillment of the Scriptures. The word "destroy" is a command in the second person. The Jewish leaders would go on to crucify ("destroy") Christ but he would not be destroyed forever. After three days, God raised him from the dead.
Ezra rebuilt the temple, but the Romans destroyed it.
AnswerThis passage begins with the "cleansing of the Temple". In the synoptic gospels, it occurred just before the arrest and trial of Jesus, and in fact was largely the reason for that arrest. In John, Jesus overturned the tables and drove the moneychangers from the Temple right at the beginning of his three-year minnistry.The author of John's Gospel is well known for his indulgence in plays on words. All the gospels were written after the destruction of the Temple, and so, beginning with Mark, incorporate a prophecy that the Temple would be destroyed. However, to John, the real temple is the body, so he has Jesus refer to his own future crucifixion and resurrection. He says that if you destroy this temple (which the Jews understand to be the Temple in which Jesus overturned the tables, but which he really meant to be his own body) then in three days he would raise the temple up again. john says that later, after the resurrection, the disciples remembered Jesus' words and believed.
I think because it is to do with Christianity and Jesus' resurrection.Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days." [John 2:19]…that he was buried, that he was raised on the third dayaccording to the Scriptures… [1 Corinthians 15:4]
It is mentioned in John 2:19 or you can look at Mark 14:58 it is in both but worded differently.
No I doubt that Jesus stayed a entire year in Jerusalem, he stayed there for a short while only. The first report when he stayed in Jerusalem was when he was taken to the temple as a baby, then again when he gets lost for three days in the temple. The last time is the victorious entry on Palm Sunday ad then the trial.
In theory, you can't destroy something and then destroy it again...
Several assumptions are necessary to answer this question. Most historians date the completion of Herod the Great's temple restoration to 37 BC. Assuming Jesus' birth in 3 BC, again as presented by many historians and Biblical scholars, and his ministry beginning when He was about 30 years old per the Gospel of Luke the cleansing of the temple happened about 27 AD or 64 years after the completion of Herod's temple.
No. There is mention of his birth, then mention of him about the time he is 12 (when he went missing and was found in the temple), and then didn't pick up again until he was about 30.
Jesus left his earthly Mother and Father to preach and teach the priests and doctors in the temple, and his parents did not find him again for 3 or 4 days. Read the story in Luke 2. 41 to 52.
Jesus won't preach when he returns, but he will rule.
No. Jewish reckoning of time was inclusive - Friday (the day he died) was the first day, Saturday was the second, and Sunday ( the day he rose) was the third. He was in the tomb from before sunset on the Friday through until the early hours of Sunday morning. You may remember the When Jesus was speaking to his enemies he said to them ( And I paraphrase here) Even though you will destroy this temple, meaning his body, yet would he build it again in three days.
When a person accepts Jesus Christ as their personal Savior (Born Again; Saved; Regenerated; come to the Lord, a Christian) the Holy Spirit comes to dwell in that person. The Holy Spirit is "God the Holy Spirit", the third person of the Trinity. I Corinthians 3:16-17, " Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are." I Corinthians 6:19-20, "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's." The Christian's body is a temple because the Holy Spirit dwells with in them. We belong to God.