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John 2:19

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2:19 Jesus replied, 1  “Destroy 2  this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”

1 tn Grk “answered and said to them.”

2 tn The imperative here is really more than a simple conditional imperative (= “if you destroy”); its semantic force here is more like the ironical imperative found in the prophets (Amos 4:4, Isa 8:9) = “Go ahead and do this and see what happens.”



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