in AD 70.19 The destruction of the temple would have been a monumental event for both Jews and Jewish Christians, raising the inevitable question of the relationship between Jesus and the temple.20 When we look to the Gospel of John, we see that it answers this very question by describing Jesus as the fulfillment of the Jerusalem temple (e.g., 1:14; 2:18–22).21 Whereas the Synoptics record Jesus’s vivid predictions of the temple’s destruction (Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21), John focuses on the theological