Alas for you, you blind guides, who say, 'If anyone swears by the sanctuary, it does not matter, but if anyone swears by the gold of the sanctuary, it is binding.'

Blind fools! which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred?

and anyone who swears by the sanctuary is swearing by it and by him who dwells in it;

it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!

and said, "This man said, 'I can tear down the sanctuary of God, and build it up in three days.' "

and saying, "You who would tear down the sanctuary, and build one in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

And at once the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split,