East and West Coming to Christ
G. M. Grant, B. D. John 12:20-33 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:… This is a companion picture to the visit of the Magi — science and thought seeking Christ. The Magi, on the one side, are the representatives of the world's godly scientists, the forerunners of the Galileos, the Keplers, the Newtons, and the Faradays, who never stop at laws but reach to their giver, "from nature rise to nature's God;" who refuse to see the world as a stage only on which man may stand or strut, may display his energy or magnify his pride, but who see it as an "altar stair that slopes through darkness up to God," and on which it becomes man to kneel and pray. The Greeks, on the other side, are the representatives of the world's godly philosophers, the theistic thinkers; they are the forerunners of the Augustines, the Aquinases, the Anselms, and the Pascals — the men who rescue philosophy from being the painted priestess of pride and purify her to be the sweet handmaid of Christ. "Where is He that is born King of the Jews?" "Sir, we would see Jesus." (G. M. Grant, B. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: WEB: Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.