{Made with hands} (cheiropoi(8874)on). In Mark alone. An old
Greek word. The negative form acheiropoi(8874)on here occurs
elsewhere only in  2Co 5:1  Col 2:11 . In  Heb 9:11  the negative
ou is used with the positive form. It is possible that a real
logion of Jesus underlies the perversion of it here. Mark and
Matthew do not quote the witnesses precisely alike. Perhaps they
quoted Jesus differently and therein is shown part of the
disagreement, for Mark adds verse  59  (not in Matthew). "And not
even so did their witness agree together," repeating the point of
verse  57 . Swete observes that Jesus, as a matter of fact, did
do what he is quoted as saying in Mark: "He said what the event
has proved to be true; His death destroyed the old order, and His
resurrection created the new." But these witnesses did not mean
that by what they said. The only saying of Jesus at all like this
preserved to us is that in  Joh 2:19 , when he referred not to
the temple in Jerusalem, but to the temple of his body, though no
one understood it at the time.