John 2:18-24

¹⁸So one of the Jewish leaders SYN replied to him, “What miracle will you perform to show us that you have authority from God to do these things?”

¹⁹Jesus replied to them, “If/When you destroy this temple, I will build it again within three days.”

²⁰So the Jewish leaders SYN said, “We have been building this Temple for forty-six years and it is not finished yet! So ◄there is no way you will build it within three days!/how will you build it within three days?► RHQ”

²¹But when Jesus said that about the temple, he was really talking about his own body.

²²Later, after Jesus had died and had become alive again, we his disciples remembered the words he had said. As a result, we believed what had been prophesied in the Scriptures about the Messiah becoming alive again, and we believed that what Jesus said was true.

²³While Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, many people came to believe that he was the Messiah because they saw the miracles he was performing.

²⁴But he did not let them tell him what he should do as the Messiah, because he knew within himself what they were all thinking.