“ Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. ”
Telleth Andrew - Why he did not at once tell Jesus is not known. Possibly he was doubtful whether Jesus would wish to converse with Gentiles, and chose to consult with Andrew about it. Tell Je...
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...
Andrew . See App-141. Andrew belonged to the first group of the Apostles, Philip to the second.
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. Andrew and Philip tell Jesus - How pleasing to God is this union, when the ministers of his Gospel agree and unite together t...
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew, &c.— From Philip's not venturing to introduce the men himself, it seems probable that there was some difficulty in the case. Perhaps they were only "proselytes...
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew. As fellow-townsmen of Bethsaida, these two seem to have drawn to each other. And...
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...
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew. — It is a striking coincidence, and perhaps more than this, that the Greeks thus came into connection with the only Apostles who bear Greek names; and may themselv...
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...
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew ,.... The request the Greeks made to him, and this he did, that he might have his advice in this matter; and that not only because he might be a senior man as well a...
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. Ver. 22. Andrew and Philip tell Jesus ] Therefore we may desire the saints departed to mediate for us to Christ, say the...
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...
The news of their coming, and their errand, is brought to Christ by Philip and Andrew, who possibly might stumble at it, because they were Gentiles, and Christ had forbidden them to go into the way o...
‘Philip went and told Andrew, and Andrew went with Philip and they told Jesus'. It is indicative of how uncertain the disciples were about things that Philip felt that he needed help in broaching th...
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 12:1 . 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...
The First-Fruits of the Heathen. The Greeks apply to the disciples:
John 1:40 ; John 1:41 ; John 6:8 ; Luke 9:49 ; Luke 9:50 ; Mark 10:13 ; Mark 10:14 ; Matthew 10:5
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...