20. Forty and six years—Just so many years before the time of this conversation, Herod the Great had begun his most magnificent reparation of the temple (one part after another) which he continued all his life, and which was now going on, and was continued thirty-six years longer, till within six or seven years of the destruction of the state, city, and temple, by the Romans. 22. They believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said—Concerning his resurrection. 23. Many believed—That he