"Alas for you, you blind guides, who say, "'Whoever swears by the Sanctuary it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, is bound by the oath.'

"Blind fools! Why, which is greater? --the gold, or the Sanctuary which has made the gold holy?

he who swears by the Sanctuary swears both by it and by Him who dwells in it;

that all the innocent blood shed upon earth may come on you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar.

who testified, "This man said, 'I am able to pull down the Sanctuary of God and three days afterwards to build a new one.'"

Flinging the shekels into the Sanctuary he left the place, and went and hanged himself.

and said, "You who would pull down the Sanctuary and build a new one within three days, save yourself. If you are God's Son, come down from the cross."

Immediately the curtain of the Sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom: the earth quaked; the rocks split;