Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
Now some of those who used to come up to worship at the Festival were Greeks.
New American Standard Bible
Now there were some
King James Version
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
Holman Bible
Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival.
International Standard Version
Now some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival.
A Conservative Version
Now some Greeks were from those who came up so that they might worship at the feast.
American Standard Version
Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast:
Amplified
Now there were some Greeks (Gentiles) among those who were going up to worship at the feast;
An Understandable Version
Now there were certain Greeks among those going up to Jerusalem to worship [God] at the [Passover] Festival [Note: These people were God-fearing Gentiles like Cornelius. See Acts 10].
Anderson New Testament
Among those who came to worship at the feast were certain Greeks.
Bible in Basic English
Now there were some Greeks among the people who had come up to give worship at the feast:
Common New Testament
Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Feast.
Daniel Mace New Testament
In the mean time, among the rest that came to worship at the feast,
Darby Translation
And there were certain Greeks among those who came up that they might worship in the feast;
Godbey New Testament
And there was certain Greeks of those having come up that they might worship at the feast:
Goodspeed New Testament
There were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival,
John Wesley New Testament
Now among those who came up to worship at the feast, there were certain Greeks.
Julia Smith Translation
And there were certain Greeks of those going up that they might worship in the festival:
King James 2000
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up in order to worship at the feast.
Modern King James verseion
And there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the Feast.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
There were certain Greeks among them, that came to pray at the feast.
Moffatt New Testament
Now there were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival;
Montgomery New Testament
Now there were certain Greeks among those who had come up to worship during the Passover feast;
NET Bible
Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.
New Heart English Bible
Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
Noyes New Testament
Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.
Sawyer New Testament
And there were some Greeks of those who went up to Jerusalem to worship at the feast;
The Emphasized Bible
Now there were certain Greeks, from among them who were coming up that they might worship in the feast.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Now there were certain Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast:
Twentieth Century New Testament
Among those who were going up to worship at the Festival were some Greeks,
Webster
And there were certain Greeks among them, that came to worship at the feast.
Williams New Testament
There were some Greeks among those who were coming up to worship at the feast,
World English Bible
Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
Worrell New Testament
And there were some Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.
Worsley New Testament
And among those that came up to worship at the feast there were certain Greeks:
Youngs Literal Translation
And there were certain Greeks out of those coming up that they may worship in the feast,
Themes
Andrew » Tells jesus of the greeks who sought to see him
Bringing men to jesus » The seekers
Curiosity » Instances of » Of the jews » And to see jesus
Feasts » Instituted by moses » Aliens (non-jews) were permitted to attend
Greece » Inhabitants of » Desire to see jesus
Philip » One of the twelve apostles » Brings certain greeks to jesus who desire to see him
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Word Count of 37 Translations in John 12:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Greeks Seeking Jesus
19 The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves, "Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is gone after him!" 20 Now some of those who used to come up to worship at the Festival were Greeks. 21 They came to Philip, of Bethsaida in Galilee, with the request, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
Phrases
Cross References
John 7:35
The Jews therefore said to one another, "Where is he about to betake himself, so that we shall not find him? Will he betake himself to the Dispersion among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
Mark 7:26
She was a Gentile woman, a Syro-phoenician by nation: and again and again she begged Him to expel the demon from her daughter.
Acts 8:27
Upon this he rose and went. Now, as it happened, an Ethiopian eunuch who was in a position of high authority with Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, as her treasurer, had visited Jerusalem to worship there,
Acts 17:4
Some of the people were won over, and attached themselves to Paul and Silas, including many God-fearing Greeks and not a few gentlewomen of high rank.
Acts 14:1
At Iconium the Apostles went together to the Jewish synagogue and preached, with the result that a great number both of Jews and Greeks believed.
Acts 16:1
He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. At Lystra he found a disciple, Timothy by name--the son of a Christian Jewess, though he had a Greek father.
Acts 20:21
and urging upon both Jews and Greeks the necessity of turning to God and of believing in Jesus our Lord.
Acts 21:28
They laid hands on him, crying out, "Men of Israel, help! help! This is the man who goes everywhere preaching to everybody against the Jewish people and the Law and this place. And besides, he has even brought Gentiles into the Temple and has desecrated this holy place."
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the Good News. It is God's power which is at work for the salvation of every one who believes--the Jew first, and then the Gentile.
Romans 10:12
Jew and Gentile are on precisely the same footing; for the same Lord is Lord over all, and is infinitely kind to all who call upon Him for deliverance.
Galatians 2:3
But although my companion Titus was a Greek they did not insist upon even his being circumcised.
Galatians 3:28
In Him the distinctions between Jew and Gentile, slave and free man, male and female, disappear; you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:11
In that new creation there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free man, but Christ is everything and is in all of us.