Text -- John 2:19 (NET)

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

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Joh 2:19

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.”