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20 The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years,[a] and you will raise it up in three days?”

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  1. 2:20 Forty-six years: based on references in Josephus (Jewish Wars 1:401; Antiquities 15:380), possibly the spring of A.D. 28. Cf. note on Lk 3:1.

20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?”

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20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

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