the fact that the leaders of the Jews remained hostile to Christ in spite of his miracles. How could they be so blind? Were the miracles of Jesus nothing but rumors that an enlightened religious establishment could easily ignore? The answer to that question is evident throughout the Gospels. Christ’s opponents could not and did not dispute that he performed miracles (John 3:2; 9:15–16). How then did they justify their rejection of Jesus as God’s spokesman and his message as God’s Word? The leaders’