Did Jesus say, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up"?
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This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

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Yes he did.

John 2:19-21 View context

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

But he spake of the temple of his body.

No he didn't.

Matthew 26:59-61 View context

Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;

But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, [yet] found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

And said, This [fellow] said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.


Mark 14:57-58 View context

And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,

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.

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