61And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. …
And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 57-68)We have here the arraignment of our Lord Jesus in the ecclesiastical court, before the great sanhedrim. Observe, I. The sitting of the court; the scribes and the elders were assembled, though it was in the dead time of the night, when other people were fast asleep in their beds; yet, to gratify their malice against Christ, they denied themselves that natural rest, and sat up all night, to be ready…
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