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John 12:20

Among those who came to worship at the feast were certain Greeks.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:

In Context

19Then the Pharisees said among themselves: You see that you gain nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.

21These then came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying: Sir, we wish to see Jesus.

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Cross References

Mark 7:26(the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation,) and she besought him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Acts 8:27And he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem to worship,

Acts 16:1And he came to Derbe and Lystra; and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess, who was a believer; but his father was a Greek.

Acts 20:21bearing full testimony both to Jews and to Greeks, of the repentance that leads to God, and of the faith that leads to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew Henry on John 12:13-20

Christ's Entrance into Jerusalem 12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. 14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, 15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt. 16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when… Read the whole commentary →

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