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19 “Destroy this temple,” Jesus retorted, “and I will rebuild it in three days!”

20 To which the Jews replied, “This Temple took forty-six years to build, and you are going to rebuild it in three days?”

21-22 He was, in fact, speaking about the temple of his own body, and when he was raised from the dead the disciples remembered what he had said to them and that made them believe both the scripture and what Jesus had said.

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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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