“Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?”
But the temple he had spoken of was his body — the Evangelist's clarification establishes Jesus' body as replacement for and fulfillment of the temple's mediating function. This Christological reinterpretation transforms the physical building into symbol for Jesus' incarnate presence. The temple's destruction and rebuilding (in 70 CE) becomes eschatologically significant when understood as pointing to Jesus' death and Resurrection.
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