18 So the Jews said to him, (A)“What sign do you show us for doing these things?” 19 Jesus answered them, (B)“Destroy this temple, and in three days (C)I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,[a] and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was speaking about (D)the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, (E)his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed (F)the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

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Footnotes

  1. John 2:20 Or This temple was built forty-six years ago

18 The Jews(A) then responded to him, “What sign(B) can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”(C)

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

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.(E) 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said.(F) Then they believed the scripture(G) and the words that Jesus had spoken.

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