<p>2:20 <em>The Jews replied: Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?</em>- The connection between temple and building is intended to recall how God does not dwell in buildings made with hands. The Lord was saying that if <em>they</em> destroyed the temple cp. killing His body, then in three days He would raise it up. His idea was clearly that <em>they</em> would destroy the temple; but at His trial, this is turned around against Him to imply that He had threatened to destroy the temple. But the Jews were in fact guilty of what they considered the most heinous crime-the destruction of the temple. Their killing of the Lord Jesus therefore meant that their temple would be destroyed in AD70; and they were responsible for that rather than the Romans.</p>