replacement theme in 2:21, and adds a long note on the relationship to the synoptic traditions.14 Conspicuous by its absence is any interest in the function of this story in the post-70 situation, when “destroy this temple” has become a horrible reality—even though this is the period in which Schnackenburg dates the Gospel.15 Indeed, so poignant and powerful would this story be for those who had faced the trauma of the Jewish war, that this is in itself an argument for setting the Gospel in that