Matthew Poole and continuators on John 2:20

20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building , and wilt thou rear it up in three days ?

The Iews understood his words of that material Temple in which they at this time were, which the best Interpreters think was the Temple builded by Ezra and Zerobabel: but how to make it out, that it was 46 years building, they were not well agreed. Some say, Cyrus reigned 30. Cambyses 8. Darius 6. These added together make 44. Others say that the Magi reigned more, 2. years. Some reckon to Cyrus 31. to his Son Cambyses 9. Darius 6. Others say that the years wherein the building was hindred, during Artaxerxes time, Ezra 4.21. added to the 2. year of Darius, v. 24. in whose 6th year it was finished; are reckoned together.

The Iews thought it strange that our Saviour should undertake in three days, to rear a building which had cost their Forefathers so many years.