JOHN—NOTE ON John 2:20 forty-six years. Herod the Great’s construction of the temple building (see note on v. 14) lasted from 20/19 to 18/17 B.C. The larger temple area was not finished until A.D. 66. Some scholars favor an alternative translation: “This temple was built forty-six years ago” (see esv footnote), which would date this statement in A.D. 29/30, since there was no year “0.”

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