First, if Christ would be cut off in the middle of the seventieth week, what would happen to the last part (three and a half years) of the final seven-year sabbatical period before the jubilee? Here again, we can see how the New Testament writers interpreted the Old Testament. In this case, we find the answer in Revelation 12:14, where John reinterpreted this three and a half years in Daniel as “a time, times and half a time.”
