John 2:20

The Jews said to him: Forty and six years, this temple was building; and wilt thou build it again in three days?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

19Jesus answered, and said to them: Demolish this temple, and in three days I will again erect it.

21But he spake of the temple of his body.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:1And Jesus passed out of the temple to go away: and his disciples came to him, showing him the structure 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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