John 2:20

The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

In Context

19And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.

21But his words were about that holy building which was his body.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:1And Jesus went out of the Temple, and on the way his disciples came to him, pointing out the buildings of the Temple.

Matthew Henry on John 2:13-23

Temple-Merchandise Punished; Christ's Death and Resurrection Foretold. 12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. 13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the… Read the whole commentary →

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