18 So the Jews said to him, “What ^zsign do you show us for doing these things?” 19 Jesus answered them, ^a“Destroy this temple, and in ^bthree days ^cI will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,¹ and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.