{I am able to destroy the temple of God} (dunamai
katalusai ton naon tou theou). What he had said ( Joh 2:19 )
referred to the temple of his body which they were to destroy
(and did) and which he would raise again in three days as he did.
It was a pitiful perversion of what Jesus had said and even so
the two witnesses disagreed in their misrepresentation ( Mr
14:59 ).