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John 2:20
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
John 2:20 · Webster Bible
John 2:20 in other translations
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”
The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”
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In context
17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
18 Then answered the Jews, and said to him, What sign showest thou to us, seeing that thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this to them: and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken.
23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast [day], many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he performed.
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