John Chapter 12 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV John 12:20

Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast:
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BBE John 12:20

Now there were some Greeks among the people who had come up to give worship at the feast:
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DARBY John 12:20

And there were certain Greeks among those who came up that they might worship in the feast;
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KJV John 12:20

And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
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WBT John 12:20


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WEB John 12:20

Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
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YLT John 12:20

And there were certain Greeks out of those coming up that they may worship in the feast,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast. Τινες implies a group, and a larger company of these ἀναβαινόντων, who were and are in the habit of going up (perhaps were still doing it even when John, before writing his Gospel, had first put the narrative into words). They went up with a view to worship in the feast, that is, there were burnt offerings and thank offerings which they were allowed to present. This shows that they were not heathen nor uncircumcised Hellenists, whichever view of that word be accepted.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) 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, but Hellenes, i.e., Gentiles.Among them that came up to worship at the feast.--The words imply that they were in the habit of going up to Jerusalem at the feasts, i.e., that though Greeks by birth, they had been admitted to the privileges of Judaism. They belonged to the class known as "Proselytes of the Gate." (Comp. Notes on Matthew 23:15 and Acts 8:27.) . . .