“... The verbal and thematic overlap between these pericopae—the question ‘Who are you?,’ Jesus’ response which indicates that his identity is revealed by the ‘things that I say,’ the fact that they ‘did not know,’ and the negative characterization of the Jews—suggests that the misunderstanding of the Jews [...] in John 8:25–27 may have been applied to the disciples in §43. The mention of ‘the Jews’ in §43.3 is somewhat surprising—the term [...] is rare in the NHL (Tri. Tract. 112.21; Gos. Phil. 75.33), and their negative characterization in the Gos. Thom. coincides with their typology in the FG (John 6:41, 52; 8:48, 52–53). Koester contends that John 8:12–59 is dependent on a controversy source (preserved in the EG or a similar written source), and a traditional sayings source that was also used by Gos. Thom., Dial. Sav., and Ap. Jas. Koester attributes John 8:25–26a to the traditional sayings sources instead of the controversy source in order to preserve his thesis, but this is surely [...] incorrect—John 8:25–27 clearly relates to the controversy with the Jews. Instead of arguing that both works were dependent on a common source, it is more plausible that §43 was influenced by John 8:25–27 since the FG appears to be the earliest Christian work to consistently employ a negative characterization of the Jews. ...”