“I suspect the builders when speaking to our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus, also thought He was speaking in hyperbole when He commented He would raise His temple back up in three days.”
Not sure I understand your comment here, but, anyway, the Pharisees (wrongly) took Christ’s words literally:
John 2:19-21: Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
The Jews replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” But the temple he had spoken of was his body.
Our Lord was speaking very literally. His body was the temple of God the Holy Spirit.