20 And thero wore certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
21 The same came therefore to Phil- ip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
22 Philip cometh and telleth An- drew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.
23 And Jesus answered them, saying The hour is come, that the Son of man should bo glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eter- nal.
26 If any man serve mo,let him fol- low me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be : if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
There is more going on in some people's minds than we are aware of. The case of the Greeks before us is a re- markable proof of this. Who would have thought when Christ was on earth, that foreigners from a distant land would have come forward in Jerusalem, and said, " Sir, we would see Jesus " ? Who these Greeks were, what they meant, why they desired to see Jesus, what their inward motives were, — all these are questions we cannot answer. Like Zaccheus, they may have been influenced by curiosity. Like the wise men from the East, they may have surmised that Jesus was the prom- ised King of the Jews, whom all the eastern world waa