{Forty and six years was this temple in building}
(Tesserakonta kai hex etesin oikodom(8874)h(8820)ho naos houtos).
"Within forty and six years (associative instrumental case) was
built (first aorist passive indicative, constative or summary use
of the aorist, of oikodome(935c), without augment) this temple." As
a matter of fact, it was not yet finished, so distrustful had the
Jews been of Herod. {And wilt thou?} (kai su;). An evident
sneer in the use of su (thou, an unknown upstart from Galilee,
of the peasant class, not one of the Sanhedrin, not one of the
ecclesiastics or even architects).