and as they could not get near Jesus on account of the crowd they tore up the roof under which he stood and through the opening they lowered the pallet on which the paralytic lay.

Jesus said to him, "You see these great buildings? Not a stone shall be left on another, without being torn down."

Then the high priest tore his clothes and cried, "What more evidence do we want?

And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.