Ezekiel, Chapter 47, verses 1-2, 8-9, 12
1 The vision of the holy waters, 6 The virtue of them1 Corinthians, Chapter 3, verses 9-11, 16-17
9 The ministers are God's fellow workmen, 11 Christ the only foundation, 16 Men the temples of God, 17 which must be kept holy3
3:9 For we are all fellowlabourers - God's labourers, and fellowlabourers with each other. Ye are God's husbandry - This is the sum of what went before: it is a comprehensive word, taking in both a field, a garden, and a vineyard. Ye are God's building - This is the sum of what follows.
3:10 According to the grace of God given to me - This he premises, lest he should seem to ascribe it to himself. Let every one take heed how he buildeth thereon - That all his doctrines may be consistent with the foundation.
3:11 For other foundation - On which the whole church: and all its doctrines, duties, and blessings may be built. Can no man lay than what is laid - In the counsels of divine wisdom, in the promises and prophecies of the Old Testament, in the preaching of the apostles, St. Paul in particular. Which is Jesus Christ - Who, in his person and offices, is the firm, immovable Rock of Ages, every way sufficient to bear all the weight that God himself, or the sinner, when he believes, can lay upon him.
John, Chapter 2, verses 13-22
12 departeth into Capernaum and to Jerusalem, 14 where he purgeth the temple of buyers and sellers, 19 He foretelleth his death and resurrection2
2:14 Oxen, and sheep, and doves - Used for sacrifice: And the changers of money - Those who changed foreign money for that which was current at Jerusalem, for the convenience of them that came from distant countries.
2:15 Having made a scourge of rushes - (Which were strewed on the ground,) he drove all out of the temple, (that is, the court of it,) both the sheep and the oxen - Though it does not appear that he struck even them; and much less, any of the men. But a terror from God, it is evident, fell upon them.
2:17 Psa 69:9.
2:18 Then answered the Jews - Either some of those whom he had just driven out, or their friends: What sign showest thou? - So they require a miracle, to confirm a miracle!
2:19 This temple - Doubtless pointing, while he spoke, to his body, the temple and habitation of the Godhead.
2:20 Forty and six years - Just so many years before the time of this conversation, Herod the Great had begun his most magnificent reparation of the temple, (one part after another,) which he continued all his life, and which was now going on, and was continued thirty - six years longer, till within six or seven years of the destruction of the state, city, and temple by the Romans.
2:22 They believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said - Concerning his resurrection.
47 The vision of the holy waters, Eze 47:1-12.
The borders of the land of Canaan, Eze 47:13-23.
47:1 Eastward - The fountain lay to the west, the conduit pipes were laid to bring the water to the temple, and so must run eastward, and perhaps one main pipe might be laid under the east - gate of the temple.The right side - On the south - side of the temple.
47:2 Out - Of the inmost court. The outer gate - The outmost north - gate in the wall that compassed the whole mountain of the Lord's house.