Mark 14:58 "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with human hands and in three days will build another, not made with hands.'"

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with human hands and in three days will build another, not made with hands.'"

English Standard Version
“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’”

New American Standard Bible
"We heard Him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"

King James Bible
We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We heard Him say, 'I will demolish this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another not made by hands.'"

International Standard Version
"We ourselves heard him say, 'I will destroy this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another one not made by human hands.'"

American Standard Version
We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We heard him say, I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another not made with hands.

Darby Bible Translation
We heard him saying, I will destroy this temple which is made with hands, and in the course of three days I will build another not made with hands.

Young's Literal Translation
'We heard him saying -- I will throw down this sanctuary made with hands, and by three days, another made without hands I will build;'

Cross References

Matthew 26:61
And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

Mark 14:57
And there arose certain, and bore false witness against him, saying,

Mark 14:59
But neither so did their witness agree together.

Mark 15:29
And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, you that destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

John 2:19
Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Hebrews 9:11
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

14:53-65 We have here Christ's condemnation before the great council of the Jews. Peter followed; but the high priest's fire-side was no proper place, nor his servants proper company, for Peter: it was an entrance into temptation. Great diligence was used to procure false witnesses against Jesus, yet their testimony was not equal to the charge of a capital crime, by the utmost stretch of their law. He was asked, Art thou the Son of the Blessed? that is, the Son of God. For the proof of his being the Son of God, he refers to his second coming. In these outrages we have proofs of man's enmity to God, and of God's free and unspeakable love to man.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

58. We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands—On this charge, observe, first, that eager as His enemies were to find criminal matter against our Lord, they had to go back to the outset of His ministry, His first visit to Jerusalem, more than three years before this. In all that He said and did after that, though ever increasing in boldness, they could find nothing. Next, that even then, they fix only on one speech, of two or three words, which they dared to adduce against Him. Further, they most manifestly pervert the speech of our Lord. We say not this because in Mark's form of it, it differs from the report of the words given by the Fourth Evangelist (Joh 2:18-22)—the only one of the Evangelists who reports it all, or mentions even any visit paid by our Lord to Jerusalem before His last—but because the one report bears truth, and the other falsehood, on its face. When our Lord said on that occasion, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up," they might, for a moment, have understood Him to refer to the temple out of whose courts He had swept the buyers and sellers. But after they had expressed their astonishment at His words, in that sense of them, and reasoned upon the time it had taken to rear the temple as it then stood, since no answer to this appears to have been given by our Lord, it is hardly conceivable that they should continue in the persuasion that this was really His meaning. But finally, even if the more ignorant among them had done so, it is next to certain that the ecclesiastics, who were the prosecutors in this case, did not believe that this was His meaning. For in less than three days after this they went to Pilate, saying, "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, after three days I will rise again" (Mt 27:63). Now what utterance of Christ known to His enemies, could this refer to, if not to this very saying about destroying and rearing up the temple? And if so, it puts it beyond a doubt that by this time, at least, they were perfectly aware that our Lord's words referred to His death by their hands and His resurrection by His own. But this is confirmed by Mr 14:59.