⁸ ‘The silver is mine and the gold^(A) is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty.

⁹ ‘The glory^(A) of this present house^(B) will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,^(C)’ declares the Lord Almighty.”

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) 22} After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said.^(C) Then they believed the scripture^(D) and the words that Jesus had spoken.

¹⁶ Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple^(A) and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?^(B)

The Living Stone and a Chosen People

⁴ As you come to him, the living Stone^(A)—rejected by humans but chosen by God^(B) and precious to him—