King James Version (KJV)
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?”
Verse in context — John 2
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Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
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Jesus answered and said unto them, ‹Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.›
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Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
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But he spake of the temple of his body.
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When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
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