John 2:20
Douay-Rheims
The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
Alcuin of York
Note, that they allude here not to the first temple under Solomon, which was finished in seven years, but to the one rebuilt under Zorobabel. (Ezra 4:5) This was forty-six years building, in consequence of the hindrance raised by the enemies of the work.
Source details
A.D. 804 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 2:18-22
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.