John 12:22
New International Version
Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.

New Living Translation
Philip told Andrew about it, and they went together to ask Jesus.

English Standard Version
Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

Berean Standard Bible
Philip relayed this appeal to Andrew, and both of them went and told Jesus.

Berean Literal Bible
Philip comes and tells Andrew; Andrew and Philip come and tell Jesus.

King James Bible
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

New King James Version
Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

New American Standard Bible
Philip came and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.

NASB 1995
Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.

NASB 1977
Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came, and they told Jesus.

Legacy Standard Bible
Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.

Amplified Bible
Philip came and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

Christian Standard Bible
Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

American Standard Version
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: Andrew cometh, and Philip, and they tell Jesus.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Philippus himself came and told Andreas, and Andreas and Philippus told Yeshua.

Contemporary English Version
Philip told Andrew. Then the two of them went to Jesus and told him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Philip cometh, and telleth Andrew. Again Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

English Revised Version
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: Andrew cometh, and Philip, and they tell Jesus.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Philip told Andrew, and they told Jesus.

Good News Translation
Philip went and told Andrew, and the two of them went and told Jesus.

International Standard Version
Philip went and told Andrew, and Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

Literal Standard Version
Philip comes and tells Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

Majority Standard Bible
Philip relayed this appeal to Andrew, and both of them went and told Jesus.

New American Bible
Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

NET Bible
Philip went and told Andrew, and they both went and told Jesus.

New Revised Standard Version
Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

New Heart English Bible
Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.

Webster's Bible Translation
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again, Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

Weymouth New Testament
Philip came and told Andrew: Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

World English Bible
Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.

Young's Literal Translation
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

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Context
Jesus Predicts His Death
21They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.” 22 Philip relayed this appeal to Andrew, and both of them went and told Jesus. 23But Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.…

Cross References
John 1:44
Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.

John 12:23
But Jesus replied, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.


Treasury of Scripture

Philip comes and tells Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

Andrew.

John 1:40,41
One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother…

John 6:8
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him,

Andrew and.

Matthew 10:5
These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

Mark 10:13,14
And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them

Luke 9:49,50
And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us…

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John 12
1. Jesus excuses Mary anointing his feet.
9. The people flock to see Lazarus.
10. The chief priests consult to kill him.
12. Jesus rides into Jerusalem.
20. Greeks desire to see Jesus.
23. He foretells his death.
37. The people are generally blinded;
42. yet many chief rulers believe, but do not confess him;
44. therefore Jesus calls earnestly for confession of faith.














(22) Philip cometh and telleth Andrew.--It is a striking coincidence, and perhaps more than this, that the Greeks thus came into connection with the only Apostles who bear Greek names; and may themselves have had some special connection by birth, or residence, or culture with Greek civilisation. The names have occurred together before (John 1:44; John 6:7-8): they were fellow-townsmen and friends. But Andrew was also brother of Simon Peter, and is one of the first group of four in the apostolic band. (Comp. Mark 13:3.) The Greeks then naturally come to Philip, and Philip consults his friend Andrew, who is in a position of greater intimacy with the Lord than he himself is, and they come together and tell Jesus.

Verse 22. - The slight modification of text preferred by the Revised Version gives great vivacity to the picture (see below, note 1). Philip receives the respectful request of the Greeks, "Sir [my lord], we would see Jesus," i.e. "converse with." They probably sought to bring some proposal before him. Surely they must have had, if they wished it, many opportunities of merely seeing Jesus, when he crossed the Mount of Olivet during those three days, or tarried in the court of the Gentiles; now they pressed for an interview. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew. Andrew was the earliest of the disciples, who brought his own brother Simon to Jesus (John 1:40-42). He is mentioned as in close association with Simon, James, and John, as partners with them in the fishing-trade on the lake of Galilee (see Mark 1:16, 29, and Mark 3:18, compared with Luke 5:10). There is some hint that Andrew and John, after the first call to become followers of Christ, clung to him, and went with him to Jerusalem, and then returned with him through Samaria, after which occurred the second call of the brothers Simon and James. The frequent references to Andrew and Philip in this Gospel correspond with the tradition preserved in the Muratorian Fragment on the Canon, touching Andrew's part in the composition of this Gospel. These two disciples are represented as consulting with each other on previous occasions, as though peculiarly related in sympathy. Philip sees certain difficulties, and Andrew has a practical mind, and proposes a way out of them (see John 6:7, 8). There was something now to be said on both sides. Their ancient prophecies anticipated a world-wide aspect of the Messianic kingdom (Isaiah 55:4, 5; Isaiah 56:3, 7; as well as Genesis 49:10). Now, if this incident occurred after Jesus had claimed the hundred and tenth psalm as an oracle which described his own Divine claims and his universal victory as the Lord and Son of David and royal Warrior-Prest (Matthew 22:41-46, and parallel passages), Philip may have felt this moment to be a most critical one in his history; for he may have been perfectly aware of the outbreak of peril which converse with Greek proselytes might at that moment have provoked in the minds of the turbulent populace. Andrew cometh and Philip, and they (together) tell Jesus. Jesus alone could solve the difficulty at that time, and Jesus himself is the just and reasonable Source of all enlightenment. Jesus is at this hour the highest Expression of man and his destiny, and he is also the perfect Manifestation of the Father, the only Mediator between God and man, absolutely one with both. We still go to him to know what God is and what God would have us to think and to be, and to learn what man may become. We take to him the puzzles of our logic, the accusations of our conscience, and the burdens of our heart. Additional interest is thrown round this narrative by a suggestion of Archdeacon Watkins, that, in the course of this week, our Lord had cleansed the temple and courts of its profane traffic, and declared it to be a house of prayer for all nations. Such grand revolutionary conceptions as those of our Lord must have deeply stirred the souls of the susceptible Greeks. Aliens were, as we know from Josephus ('Ant.,' 15:11.5), forbidden to pass beyond the balustrade round the ἵερον,. M. Ganneau has found among the ruins of Jerusalem one of the slabs of stone which recorded this exclusion.

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Greek
Philip
Φίλιππος (Philippos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5376: From philos and hippos; fond of horses; Philippus, the name of four Israelites.

relayed [this appeal]
λέγει (legei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.

to Andrew,
Ἀνδρέᾳ (Andrea)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 406: From aner; manly; Andreas, an Israelite.

[and both of them]
Ἀνδρέας (Andreas)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 406: From aner; manly; Andreas, an Israelite.

went
ἔρχεται (erchetai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2064: To come, go.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

told
λέγουσιν (legousin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.

Jesus.
Ἰησοῦ (Iēsou)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.


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