We heard him say, I will destroy this temple made with human hands and in three days will build another, not made with hands — the testimony is a distortion of Jesus' temple teaching. Jesus never said I will destroy this temple — he predicted its destruction (13:2) without claiming to destroy it himself, and his reference to the temple rebuilt in three days was a reference to his own resurrection body (John 2:19–21). The distortion is enough to make the charge plausible but not enough to secure the required witness agreement.

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