John 2:19

Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans

and again, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up; "[14]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

As also the Lord speaks in reference to Himself, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. He spake this, however," it is said, "of the temple of His body."[32]

Fragments of Clement Not Given in the Oxford Edition

The Jews therefore said, In forty-six years was this temple built, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? But He spake of the temple of His body."[4]

Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics

John,) "but they were not of us. If they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us."[33]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

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."[106]

Tertullian On Modesty

And accordingly, "Know ye not your bodies (to be) members of Christ? "because Christ, too, is God's temple. "Overturn this temple, and I will in three days' space resuscitate it."[171]

Five Books in Reply to Marcion

Denote our bodies: God's true temple[225]

Origen Against Celsus Book III

And He "took His life," when He manifested 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,"[105]

Origen Against Celsus Book 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."[38]

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments

The Saviour appeared in the form of man, and he too will come in the form of a man. The Saviour raised up and showed His holy flesh like a temple,[28]

Cyprian Epistle LIV

has once learned, never departs from Him at all, and that those are the Church who remain in the house of God; but that, on the other hand, they are not the plantation planted by God the Father, whom we see not to be established with the stability of wheat, but blown about like chaff by the breath of the enemy scattering them, of whom John also in his epistle says, "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us."[32]

Cyprian Treatise I On the Unity of the Church

The Apostle John execrates and severely assails these, when he says, "They went forth from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, surely they would have continued with us."[33]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

And "After three days another shall be raised up without hands."[69]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Of this same thing in the Epistle of John: "They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would doubtless have remained with us."[730]

A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity

Although, however, I must hasten to other matters, I do not think that I must pass over this point, that in the Gospel the Lord declared, by way of signifying His majesty, saying, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will build it up again."[166]

Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV

and demanded that He should be crucified, though they laid nothing else to His charge except that He said that He was the Son of God, the King of the Jews; also His own saying,[241]

Victorinus Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John " And when the Jews said, "Forty and six years was this temple in building," the evangelist says, "He spake of the temple of His body."[56]