John 2:18-22

J.B. Phillips New Testament

¹⁸ As a result of this, the Jews said to him, “What sign can you give us to justify what you are doing?”

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.