Jesus answered and said to them, 'Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'

The Jews, therefore, said, 'Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'

but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body;

If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation."