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Joh_2:21-22. Τοῦ σώματος ]
[147] Genitive of apposition; see Winer, p. 494 [E. T. p. 666].
Joh_2:22. οὖν ] represents the recollection as answering to the true meaning of that declaration.
ἐμνήσθησαν ] they became mindful of, Joh_2:17; Joh_12:16. The saying came afresh to their remembrance when it was explained as a fact by the resurrection; previously, because not understood, it had been forgotten. With ἠγέρθη comp. ἐγερῶ , Joh_2:19.
καὶ ἐπίστευσαν , κ . τ . λ .] As the result of this recollection, they believed the Scripture (felt convinced of the truth of its statements),—observing, that is, the harmony of its prophecies concerning the resurrection of Jesus (Psa_16:10; Isaiah 53; cf. Luk_24:26; Act_13:33 ff.; 1Co_15:4; Mat_12:40) with that saying of Christ’s,—and the word which Jesus had (then, Joh_2:19) spoken, which now, as fulfilled in the resurrection, presented itself to them in its full prophetic truth. Upon πιστεύειν τινι in St. John, comp. Weiss, Lehrbegr. p. 20.
Schweizer (whom Scholten follows) regards Joh_2:21-22 as spurious, quite groundlessly. The statement is the exact outcome of St. John’s inmost personal experience.
[147] John explains the saying so simply and definitely, that there is no room for the double meaning which Luthardt, Hengstenberg, and others import into it. With equal simplicity and definiteness does he represent the meaning given as that of Jesus Himself (against Weizsäcker, p. 266). In like manner Joh_7:38, Joh_12:32, Joh_21:19. In none of these passages is any distinction drawn between the sense given and the meaning intended by Jesus Himself.