years after that brings us to AD 29, which yields a date of AD 33 for Jesus’ crucifixion, assuming a three-and-a-half-year ministry.13 What is even more important theologically is that Jesus here presents his own crucified and resurrected body as the replacement of the Jewish temple. This is especially significant given that, when John writes his Gospel—almost certainly after the destruction of the physical temple in the year AD 70—he knows that the temple has already been destroyed.14 So, what John