Jon 2:19

John 2:19 says., Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.  This was Jesus’s answer to the Jews, most likely the religious leaders.  We do not need to ask for signs from God but need to simply follow Him by faith.  The Jews did not understand the significance of the sign He gave.  They were still looking at the physical, not the spiritual.   Verse twenty adds, Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?  They said it took our fathers forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it up in three days?  Verse twenty-one continues, But he spake of the temple of his body. Though Jesus was talking about the temple of His body, we need not doubt that God could have raised the physical temple had that been needed.  Christ was concerned with the physical temple being kept clean, but He was more concerned with the spiritual temple, the body, being kept clean.   Verse twenty-two states, When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.  After His death, burial and resurrection, the disciples remembered what He had said and believed the scripture and what He had said.  We are already past His death, burial and resurrection, so we should be able to see clearly what the Bible teaches us.  Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit.  We need to cleanse ourselves of all unrighteousness. Verse twenty-three adds, Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.  While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover, many people believed in His name and saw the miracles that He did.  If we want to see miracles today, we must first believe in the name of Jesus Verse twenty-four continues, But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,  Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew the nature of all men.  Though they believed in His power and miracles, they still saw Jesus as someone Who was going to be an earthly ruler.  Verse twenty-five concludes, And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.  Jesus didn’t need anyone to testify for Him, because He understood the nature of men, and they all fell short of being what God had created them to be.  Though we are to witness for Jesus, He is not dependent on our proving Who He is.