18 So the Jews replied to him, “What sign will you show us for doing these things?”

19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple,[a](A) and I will raise it up in three days.”(B)

20 Therefore the Jews said, “This temple took forty-six years to build,[b] and will you raise it up in three days?” (C)

21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.(D) 22 So when he was raised from the dead,(E) his disciples remembered that he had said this,(F) and they believed the Scripture(G) and the statement Jesus had made.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:19 Or sanctuary, also in vv. 20,21
  2. 2:20 Or was built forty-six years ago

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