⁶¹ and said, “This fellow said, ^(A)‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.’ ”

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, ^(A)“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

²⁰ Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

²¹ But He was speaking ^(B)of the temple of His body.

⁴⁰ and saying, ^(A)“You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself! ^(B)If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”

²⁹ And ^(A)those who passed by blasphemed Him, ^(B)wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! ^(C)You who destroy the temple and build it in three days,

Paul’s Roman Citizenship

²² And they listened to him until this word, and then they raised their voices and said, ^(A)“Away with such a fellow from the earth, for ^(B)he is not fit to live!”

¹³ saying, “This fellow persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”

^18 [a]Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this ^[b]babbler want to say?”

Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them ^(A)Jesus and the resurrection.