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"We heard him say, `I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.`"
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A Deliberate Distortion of Truth
Commentators explain that this accusation was a malicious distortion of Jesus's actual words. As recorded in John 2:19, Jesus spoke of the temple of his body, challenging his opponents to destroy it, and he would raise it in three days. The false witnesses twisted this promise of his resurrection into a threat against the Jerusalem temple to make him seem like a revolutionary.
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Made with hands (χειροποιητον). In Mark alone. An old Greek word. The negative form αχειροποιητον here occurs elsewhere only in [R…
19th Century
Anglican
This temple.—The word here, as in Matthew 26:61 and John 2:19, is that which indicates generally the sanctuary or shrine, and here…
Baptist
It was a rule that they should be examined separately, and there had not been time for them to be coached on what to say, so one contradicted the o…
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Soon a definite charge was made. Jesus had said he would destroy this “man-made temple” and build another “not made by man” in three days (compare …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
We heard him say In a discourse of his, recorded in (John 2:19) :
I will destroy this…
Presbyterian
We have here Christ's condemnation before the great council of the Jews. Peter followed; but the high priest's fireside was not a proper place for …
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