Protestantism
English
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
The Jews, therefore, said, `Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'
The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple building, and thou wilt raise it up in three days?
Then said the Iewes, Fourtie and sixe yeeres was this Temple a building, and wilt thou reare it vp in three daies?
Then sayde the Iewes: xlvi. yeares was this temple abuyldinge: and wylt thou reare it vp in thre dayes?
The Jews therefore said, This temple was forty-six years being built, and will thou raise it up in three days?
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?
Then the Jews said to him: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you rebuild it in three days?
The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!
“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”
Then said the Jews, This temple has been forty-six years in building, and canst thou rear it up in three days?
Then said the Jews, This temple was forty-six years in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
Then the Jews said, “This temple has been under construction1 forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?”
- This 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
Then the Jews said, This sanctuary was forty six years being built, and do you raise it up in three days?
Then the Jews said, This temple was forty-six years building, and will you rear it up in three days?
The Jewish leaders therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"
The Jewish leaders therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"
The Jewish leaders therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"
Then said the Jews, Forty-six years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
“This Temple,” the authorities replied, “has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to ‘raise it in three days’?”
“This Temple,” the authorities replied, “has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to ‘raise it in three days’?”
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
The Jews, therefore, said—In forty and six years, was this shrine built. And, thou, in three days, wilt raise it!
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
“This Temple,” replied the Jews, “has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to ‘raise it in three days’?”
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you rear it up in three days?
Catholicism
English
The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
Then the Jews said, “This temple has been built up over forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”12
- 2:20The length of time, 46 years, is divided into 40 plus 6 providentially. The 46 years is counted as the 46th Passover since the completion of the rebuilding of the Temple Sanctuary, which took 1.5 years. Josephus tell us that the Temple more generally, not merely the Sanctuary alone, took 8 years. Subtracting 1.5 years gives us 6.5 years: the length of time from the completion of the Sanctuary (at which time the rebuilt Temple was consecrated to God and the count of the years began) to the completion of the other buildings related to the Sanctuary. Then 40 more years are counted until Christ cleansed the temple by driving out the buyers and sellers.(Conte)
- 2:20Since Jesus was referring to his body as a temple, of which the temple building is merely a symbol, this passage also refers symbolically to the length of time since the Immaculate Conception. This was now the 46th Passover since the Immaculate Conception, when God began to build the temple of Christ’s body by first building the temple of Mary’s body, in which God dwelt for 9 months (in the womb).(Conte)