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- In Luke, Was Jesus Dedicated in the Second Temple, or Third?
How many years did it take to build Herod's Temple?
The Temple in the gospels is stated to have taken 46 years :
NASB, John 2:20 - They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?”
"The construction of all this work occupied, according to John ii. 20, forty-six years; in reality, however, it was not completed until the procuratorship of Albinus (62-64 C. E.), more than eighty years after its commencement." -1906 Jewish Encyclopedia
Most likely John 2:20 is not a statement of the Temples completed state, but rather a statement of how long it's been in process.
"It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,"
Reading that line, we see it's more of an exacerbated response. As if to say "we've been building this temple for 46 years". Not so much indicating completion.
1." when there's no "2.". This isn't Ezra's temple: it's Herod's....it's Zerubbabel’s temple Ezra 3:8. It's rebuild was started in the 18th year of Herod's reign...". You seem to have conflated the post-exilic temple (late 6th C. BC) with Herod's temple (late 1st C. BC). These are two distinct building projects.