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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
John 12:20
And there were certain Greeks, etc. Among those who came to worship
were Greeks, members of the Gentile division of the race which embraced
all that were not Jews. These were not Jews who spoke the Grecian
language and lived in Greek countries; those are called in the original
Greek "Hellenistoi". We find the latter in the Jerusalem church in
large numbers. See Acts 6:1. These who sought to visit Jesus were
"Hellenes", a term only used of the Greek race. It is probable that
they belonged to the large class of "devout Greeks", met elsewhere by
Paul (Acts 17:4), who were sick of heathenism and were attracted by
the grand Hebrew revelation of the unity of God. On this great national
occasion they had accompanied Jews settled abroad as they returned to
worship in the city of David.
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