Matthew 27:39-40 - Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!"
I wonder how well-known and widely spread Jesus' words had become. If these passers by were just your average Shekaniah from Shiloh and his brother Eliphelet from Edom, I wonder how they knew that Jesus had said this about the Temple. If they hadn't been nearby when Jesus spoke those words, they must have heard them 2nd, 3rd, or nth hand from those who had been there.
I find it interesting too that these should be some of the jeers that they shouted. They obviously didn't understand what Jesus was talking about and yet there he was -- beginning to fulfill those very words before their very eyes.
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