Matthew 27:40
Good News Translation
"You were going to tear down the Temple and build it back up in three days! Save yourself if you are God's Son! Come on down from the cross!"

New Revised Standard Version
and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”

Contemporary English Version
shouted, "So you're the one who claimed you could tear down the temple and build it again in three days! If you are God's Son, save yourself and come down from the cross!"

New American Bible
and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself, if you are the Son of God, [and] come down from the cross!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days dost rebuild it: save thy own self. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days dost rebuild it: save thy own self. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

saying.

Genesis 37:19,20 And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh. . . .

Revelation 11:10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry: and shall send gifts one to another, because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt upon the earth.

that destroyest.

Matthew 26:61 And they said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God and after three days to rebuild it.

Luke 14:29,30 Lest, after he hath laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all that see it begin to mock him, . . .

John 2:19-22 Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up. . . .

If.

Matthew 27:54 Now the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were sore afraid, saying: Indeed this was the Son of God.

Matthew 4:3,6 And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. . . .

Matthew 26:63,64 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ the Son of God. . . .

come.

Matthew 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he left them, and went away.

Luke 16:31 And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.

Context
The Crucifixion
39And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, 40And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days dost rebuild it: save thy own self. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41In like manner also the chief priests, with the scribes and ancients, mocking said:…
Cross References
Matthew 26:61
And they said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God and after three days to rebuild it.

Matthew 27:41
In like manner also the chief priests, with the scribes and ancients, mocking said:

Matthew 27:42
He saved others: himself he cannot save. If he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross: and we will believe him.

John 2:19
Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up.

Matthew 27:39
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