19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple,[a](A) and I will raise it up in three days.”(B)

20 Therefore the Jews said, “This temple took forty-six years to build,[b] and will you raise it up in three days?” (C)

21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:19 Or sanctuary, also in vv. 20,21
  2. 2:20 Or was built forty-six years ago

19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”(A)

20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.(B)

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