Therefore, when Jesus said, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up” the Pharisees knew that He was speaking of His body (John 2:19). They were without excuse. Being scholars of the Old Testament they knew what God had said.
The Pharisees were wilfully ignorant. They had departed from Old Testament faith and scripture and had built themselves a religion of legalism called Judaism, which was a wilful departure from the heart of God revealed in scripture. Sin had blinded them to the clear mind of God.
Christianity is not a new religion added to the Old Testament. Judaism was the new religion, or the departure from the Old Testament. Christianity is the continuation or the fulfilment of the Old Testament. That is, Christianity in its biblical (Hebraic) form, rather than in its Hellenistic/Western form.
It was the rejection of the temple of stone in Jerusalem that outraged the Pharisees so much. When Jesus said, “Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name there am I in their midst”, He invalidated the temple in Jerusalem. This is why they crucified Him.
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