Mark 14 · Verse 58

Mark 14:58

We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
Mark 14:58, King James Version

Mark 14:58 in other translations

BSB“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”
WEB“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”
ASVWe heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.
YLT‘We heard him saying--I will throw down this sanctuary made with hands, and by three days, another made without hands I will build;'
DARBYWe heard him saying, I will destroy this temple which is made with hands, and in the course of three days I will build another not made with hands.
BBEHe said in our hearing, I will put an end to this Temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will make another without hands.
WebsterWe heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

What does Mark 14:58 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
58. We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands--On this charge, observe, first, that eager as His enemies were to find criminal matter against our Lord, they had to go back to the outset of His ministry, His first visit to Jerusalem, more than three years before this. In all that He said and did after that, though ever increasing in boldness, they could find nothing. Next, that even then, they fix only on one speech, of two or three words, which they dared to adduce against Him. Further, they most manifestly pervert the speech of our Lord. We say not this because in Mark's form of it, it differs from the report of the words given by the Fourth Evangelist (Joh 2:18-22)--the only one of the Evangelists who reports it all, or mentions even any visit paid by our Lord to Jerusalem before His last--but because the one report bears truth, and the other falsehood, on its face. When our Lord said on that occasion, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up," they might, for a moment, have understood Him to refer to the temple out of whose courts He had swept the buyers and sellers. But after they had expressed their astonishment at His words, in that sense of them, and reasoned upon the time it had taken to rear the temple as it then stood, since no answer to this appears to have been given by our Lord, it is hardly conceivable that they should continue in the persuasion that this was really His meaning. But finally, even if the more ignorant among them had done so, it is next to certain that the ecclesiastics, who were the prosecutors in this case, did not believe that this was His meaning. For in less than three days after this they went to Pilate, saying, "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, after three days I will rise again" (Mt 27:63). Now what utterance of Christ known to His enemies, could this refer to, if not to this very saying about destroying and rearing up the temple? And if so, it puts it beyond a doubt that by this time, at least, they were perfectly aware that our Lord's words referred to His death by their hands and His resurrection by His own. But this is confirmed by Mr 14:59.

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 58.

(k) "I will" Mk 15:29, Jn 2:19

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 14:53-65

We have here Christ's condemnation before the great council of the Jews. Peter followed; but the high priest's fire-side was no proper place, nor his servants proper company, for Peter: it was an entrance into temptation. Great diligence was used to procure false witnesses against Jesus, yet their testimony was not equal to the charge of a capital crime, by the utmost stretch of their law. He was asked, Art thou the…

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Mark 14:58 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ὅτιhotithatG3754
ἡμεῖςhēmeisWe ourselvesG3165
ἠκούσαμενēkousamenheardG191
αὐτοῦautouwhen heG846
λέγοντοςlegontosis sayingG3004
ὅτιhotithatG3754
ἐγὼegōI myselfG1473
καταλύσωkatalusōwill destroyG2647
τὸνton<the>G3588
ναὸνnaontempleG3485
τοῦτονtoutonthisG3778
τὸνtonthe [one]G3588
χειροποίητονcheiropoiētonmade with handsG5499
καὶkaiandG2532
διὰdiainG1223
τριῶνtriōnthreeG5140
ἡμερῶνhēmerōndaysG2250
ἄλλονallonanotherG243
ἀχειροποίητονacheiropoiētonnot made with handsG886
οἰκοδομήσω.oikodomēsōI will build.G3618

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Mark 14:58

  • John 2:19

    Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

  • Hebrews 9:11

    But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

  • 2 Corinthians 5:1

    For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

  • Acts 7:48

    Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

  • Mark 15:29

    And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,

  • Hebrews 9:24

    For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

  • Daniel 2:34

    Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

  • Daniel 2:45

    Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

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Da 2:34,45; Ac 7:48; 2Co 5:1; Heb 9:11,24

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Context

  • Mark 14:57

    And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,

  • Mark 14:58

    We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

  • Mark 14:59

    But neither so did their witness agree together.

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Mark 14:58 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Nosotros le hemos oído decir: Yo derribaré este templo que es hecho de mano, y en tres días edificaré otro echo sin mano.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Nous l’avons entendu disant: Moi, je détruirai ce temple qui est fait de main, et en trois jours j’en bâtirai un autre qui ne sera pas fait de main.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wir hörten ihn sagen: Ich werde diesen Tempel, der mit Händen gemacht ist, abbrechen, und in drei Tagen werde ich einen anderen aufbauen, der nicht mit Händen gemacht ist.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Quoniam nos audivimus eum dicentem: Ego dissolvam templum hoc manu factum, et per triduum aliud non manu factum ædificabo.