How Long Until the Fullness of Time?

There is an old story that when Michelangelo was painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Pope Julius would come by to yell up at him in the scaffolding, “When will my ceiling be ready?” Michelangelo would grit his teeth and mutter, “When it is finished.” In Mark 5, Jesus enters a town and a great crowd gathers around him. Jairus, a leader of the local synagogue, pushes his way through the crowd looking for Jesus, and throws himself into the dirt