John 2:20
Good News Translation
"Are you going to build it again in three days?" they asked him. "It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple!"

New Revised Standard Version
The Jews then said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?”

Contemporary English Version
The leaders replied, "It took 46 years to build this temple. What makes you think you can rebuild it in three days?"

New American Bible
The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

Context
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
19Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up. 20The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days? 21But he spoke of the temple of his body.…
Cross References
Ezra 5:16
Then came this same Sassabasar, and laid the foundations of the temple of God in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it is in building, and is not yet finished.

John 1:19
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?

1 Corinthians 15:4
And that he was buried: and that he rose again on the third day according to the scriptures:

John 2:19
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