“Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?”
Jesus answered, 'Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days' — Jesus' cryptic response employs the temple as metaphor for his body. The future "will raise" (egeirō) employs resurrection vocabulary, though the meaning remains hidden until post-Resurrection understanding. The three-day timeframe alludes to his Resurrection, though this connection remains opaque to auditors.
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