20The Jews therefore said, |It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?|


In Context

17 His disciples remembered that it was written, |Zeal for your house will eat me up.|

18 The Jews therefore answered him, |What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?|

19 Jesus answered them, |Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.|

20 The Jews therefore said, |It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?|

21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.

22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

John 2:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:20The Jews replied, "It has taken forty- six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?"

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:20The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:20The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:20The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple building, and thou wilt raise it up in three days?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:20The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:20The Jews, therefore, said, 'Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?