as God had instructed Moses to hold up the bronze serpent on a pole in order to deliver Israel from the peril of death in the wilderness, so will this “Son of Man” be lifted up to deliver the world from the threat of death; those who believe in him will live. The verb hypsoō, which can mean both “lift up” and “exalt,” occurs five times in John as a distinctive term for the crucifixion: while human beings “lift up” Jesus to death on the cross, God “exalts” him (3:14; 8:28; 12:32, 34) or, as John writes