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John 12:18-20
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John 12:18-20
New English Translation
18 Because they had heard that Jesus[a] had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him. 19 Thus the Pharisees[b] said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”
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20 Now some Greeks[c] were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.
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- John 12:18 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- John 12:19 sn See the note on Pharisees in 1:24.
- John 12:20 sn These Greeks (῞Ελληνές τινες, hellēnes tines) who had come up to worship at the feast were probably “God-fearers” rather than proselytes in the strict sense. Had they been true proselytes, they would probably not have been referred to as Greeks any longer. Many came to worship at the major Jewish festivals without being proselytes to Judaism, for example, the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:27, who could not have been a proselyte if he were physically a eunuch.
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