Songer explains, “Two related motifs are woven carefully together in John 5–12—the steady insistence that Jesus is God’s Son come to grant life and the steadily increasing hostility of the Jews toward Jesus.”8 Tenney designates these chapters as periods of controversy (chaps. 5–6), conflict (chaps. 7–11), and crisis (chap. 12).9 As Jesus performed His miracles and delivered His accompanying discourses in the context of the Jewish feasts, He was demonstrating that only He can fulfill the hopes and