I have heard it taught that it was something that Jesus did more than once. However, it is good to keep in mind that modern people tend to place a much greater value on a strict chronological order than the authors of the Bible, so we should be careful not to try to get out of the Bible something that they were never intending to communicate. For instance, a chiasm is where there a sequence of thoughts are are expressed and then expressed in the reverse order. For example, in Joel 3:17-21:
“‘Then you will know that I, the Lord your God,
dwell in Zion, my holy hill.
Jerusalem will be holy;
never again will foreigners invade her.
In that day the mountains will drip new wine,
and the hills will flow with milk;
all the ravines of Judah will run with water.
A fountain will flow out of the Lord’s house
and will water the valley of acacias.
But Egypt will be desolate,
Edom a desert waste,
because of violence done to the people of Judah,
in whose land they shed innocent blood.
Judah will be inhabited forever
and Jerusalem through all generations.
Shall I leave their innocent blood unavenged?
No, I will not.’
The Lord dwells in Zion!”
The ideas presented in this prophecy follow this arrangement:
A - God dwells in Zion (verse 17a)
B - Jerusalem is holy (verse 17b)
C - Foreign invaders are banished (verse 17c)
X - The blessings of the Kingdom (verse 18)
C - Foreign enemies are destroyed (verse 19)
B - Jerusalem and Judah are preserved (verses 20–21a)
A - God dwells in Zion (verse 21b)
The Bible is full of chiasms and many of its books form complex chiastic patterns. Chiasms are helpful in correctly understanding a passage by knowing that the parts that mirror each other expressing the same thought, so they allow the authors of the Bible to give commentary as well as to draw our attention to something by emphasizing the center of a chasm. The point is that it can be easy for someone who is trying to get a strict chronological order out of a passage to miss that the second half is mirroring the first half and thus miss what was being communicated. Furthermore, there are a number of instances in the Bible where parts of it are not in chronological order.