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John 2:20

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20Then the Jews said, “This temple has been under constructionh forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?”

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Footnotes

  1. hThis translation of the aorist verb is based on a very close parallel in Ezra 5:16 (LXX), where it is clear from the following verb that the construction had not yet been completed

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Therefore the Jews said, “This temple took forty-six years to build, and will you raise it up in three days?”

NLTNew Living Translation

“What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?”

KJV 1900King James Version

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