(2:20). The temporal reference does not indicate the point in time when the temple was constructed but the amount of time that transpired during its building. Likewise, a woman whom Jesus heals in Mark is said to have had a flow of blood “for 12 years” (5:25). Typological references, finally, indicate the kind of time within which an action transpires. When the narrator of John’s Gospel says that Nicodemus came to Jesus “by night” (3:2), he does not mean to indicate when the meeting occurred (which