Matthew Chapter 26 verse 61 Holy Bible
and said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
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But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.
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and said, *He* said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and in three days build it.
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And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
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and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"
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said, `This one said, I am able to throw down the sanctuary of God, and after three days to build it.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 61. - This fellow (οῦτος). Contemptuously, displaying their animosity by the disrespectful use of the pronoun. I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. This is a distorted account of what our Lord said at his first purgation of the temple, when asked to give a sign in proof of his authority. Speaking metaphorically of his body, he had made this announcement, "Destroy ye this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" (John 2:19). At the time the Jews had not understood the words, and they now pervert them into a criminal accusation, which might take the form of charging him with being either an impious fomenter of disturbance, or a pretender to superhuman powers, Divine or Satanic. In either case, the charge would bring him into collision with the Roman authorities, which was the real object of this preliminary inquiry. We must not forget that Christ had twice interfered with the traffic in the temple, which was carried on to the great profit of the avaricious family of Annas, and that the malice of the high priests was on this account greatly embittered.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(61) This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God.--It is remarkable that the two Gospels which record the charge do not record the words in which it had its starting-point. Apparently, the second cleansing of the Temple (Matthew 21:12) had revived the memory of the first, and brought back to men's minds the words that had then been spoken--"Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" (John 2:19). What was now reported was a sufficiently natural distortion of what had then been said. St. Mark adds that even then the witnesses did not agree. There were still discrepancies as to time, place, and the exact words, that did not fit in with the established rules of evidence.
