John 2:20

“This Temple,” replied the Jews, “has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to ‘raise it in three days’?”

Twentieth Century New Testament

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

19“Destroy this temple,” was his answer, “and I will raise it in three days.”

21But Jesus was speaking of his body as a temple.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:1Leaving the Temple Courts, Jesus was walking away, when his disciples came up to draw his attention to the Temple buildings.

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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