John 2
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John 2:18-22

18But the Jewish leaders demanded, “What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it.”

19“All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

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

21But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own body.

22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.

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