“ And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: ”
Certain Greeks - In the original, “some Hellenists” - -the name commonly given to the Greeks. The same name was commonly used by the Jews to denote all the pagan nations, because most of those wh...
And there were certain Greeks among them that (a) came up to worship at the feast: (a) After the solemn custom: the Greeks were first so called by the name of the country of Greece, where they lived...
The Request of the Greeks. This incident is chosen to illustrate the Lord's consciousness that only through death could the final success of His work be brought about. If it was invented to gain Hi...
And , &c. This was the third day before the Passover, 12th of Nisan, our Sunday sunset to Monday sunset. Greeks . Greek. Hellenes: i.e. Gentiles, not Greek-speaking Jews, or Grecians ( Acts...
20. Now there were some Greeks. I do not think that they were Gentiles or uncircumcised, because immediately afterwards it follows that they came to worship. Now it was strictly prohibited...
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: Certain Greeks - There are three opinions concerning these: 1. That they were proselytes of the gate or covenant, who c...
And there were certain Greeks— After the conquest of Darius by Alexander, all his successors of different nations were called Greeks, whence came the name of "the Grecian monarchy," otherwise cal...
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: And [or, 'Now' de ( G1161 )] there were certain Greeks, х Helleenes ( G1672 )] - not Grecian Jews х...
The Triumphal Entry. Close of the Public Ministry 1-11. Supper at Bethany (see on Matthew 26:6 and Mark 14:3 , which record the same incident). The event in Luke 7:36 . is different. The suppe...
And there were certain Greeks. — Comp. Note on John 7:35 , where we have the same word in the original, and Acts 6:1 ; Acts 9:29 ; and Acts 11:20 . They were not Hellenists, i.e., Greek Jews,...
III. THE CORN OF WHEAT. "Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast: these therefore came to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying...
Sacrifice a Law of Life John 12:20-29 These were genuine Greeks. The East came to the manger-bed; the West to the Cross. These men came to Philip probably because of his Greek name. The inartic...
The shadows of the Passion were now falling across the path of the Christ. In what happened at the supper we have a vivid contrast. Mary and Judas arrest our attention. She, discovering the sorrows o...
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him. (20) And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the fe...
And there were certain Greeks ,.... "Hellenes", so called, from Hellen, a king of that name, as Pliny says r These were not Graecizing Jews, or Jews that dwelt in Greece, and spoke the Greek languag...
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: Ver. 20. Greeks ] That is, proselytes or transmarine Jews, that read the Greek version, and were called Hellenists.
And there were certain Greeks A prelude of the Gentile Church. The phrase, τινες Ελληνες, here used, signifies properly, as translators have rendered it, certain Greeks. But all the Gentiles bein...
A SUPPER FOR HIM AT BETHANY (vs.1-8) Six days before the Passover He returned to the area of Jerusalem, coming by way of Jericho, as Luke shows us ( Luke 19:1-28 ). These days He spent in ministe...
Certain Greeks Desire to See Jesus; The Recompence of Christ's Servants. 20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up t...
OLBGrk; It is not easy to be determined what these Greeks were; whether Jews, who, being scattered in the Grecian country upon the conquests which the Grecians had made upon the Jews under Alexand...
Life Comes through His Death ( John 12:20-33 ). ‘Now among those who went up to worship at the Feast were some Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him,...
EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 12:20-36 . Certain Greeks coming with a desire to see Him gave our Lord an opportunity of pointing to His atoning work as the hope of salvation for all men, i...
John 12:20 , John 12:23 I. "The hour is come." The culminating hour of His life, that hour which is to explain all that has happened, to reveal all that is unknown. "It behoved Him thus to suf...
John 12:1 . Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. The days Christ was to spend upon the earth were getting...
John 12:1 . Six days before the passover. The Hebrew sabbath was kept from sunset to sunset. The worship of the day being closed, the jews indulged in a good supper after the light food of the day...
And there came certain Greeks;…the same came therefore to Philip … saying, Sir, we would see Jesus The incident and its significance These Greeks belonged to those numerous Gentiles who, like t...
EXPOSITION The twelfth chapter neither belongs intrinsically to that which precedes nor to that which follows. It is a paragraph of high significance, as bearing on the construction of the Gospe...
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast.
1 Kings 8:41-43 ; Acts 14:1 ; Acts 16:1 ; Acts 17:4 ; Acts 20:21 ; Acts 21:28 ; Acts 8:27 ; Colossians 3:11 ; Galatians 2:3 ; Galatians 3:28 ; Isaiah 11:10 ; Isaiah 60:2-14 ; Isaiah 66:1...
The Hour Is Come John 12:20-32 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We read in our opening verses that the Greeks who had come up to the feast desired to see Jesus. They told Philip, Philip told Andrew, and the...
Certain Greeks — A prelude of the Gentile Church. That these were circumcised does not appear. But they came up on purpose to worship the God of Israel.