John 2:20
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 Iewes, Fourty and six yeres was this Temple in building, and wilt thou reare it vp in three dayes?
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John 2:20
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
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Members of the Jewish people or nation.
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Periods of twelve months.
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Sense 1: A sacred house, building, or place devoted to the worship or presence of God or an idol. Sense 2: Christ's body, expressly called the temple of his body. Sense 3: A believer's body, or believers collectively, called the temple of God or of the Holy Ghost. Sense 4: The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb, expressly called the temple of the city.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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Sense 1: A structure made for habitation or use. Sense 2: The act of constructing.
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Sense 1: Second-person singular present form of will: choosest, intendest, or art disposed to. Sense 2: As an auxiliary, marks future action.
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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.
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To raise, set up, erect, establish, or build up.
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19Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
19Iesus answered, and said vnto them, *Destroy this temple, and in three dayes I will raise it vp.
20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
20Then said the Iewes, Fourty and six yeres was this Temple in building, and wilt thou reare it vp in three dayes?
Selected passage21But he spake of the temple of his body.
21But he spake of the temple of his body.