"When I am lifted up from the earth, I shall draw all men to myself." (John 12:32)
In today’s Gospel, Jesus expresses his desire to save everyone by turning suffering into glory.
It begins when some Greeks want to see Jesus and they approach one of his apostles who has a Greek name, Philip, who in turn confers with another Greek-named apostle, Andrew, also from Bethsaida, a town near the Greek territories to the north.
They are non-Jews but they are going to worship in Jerusalem for Passover; they are the first Greeks in the Gospel who see Jesus as a possible Messiah, rather than simply a miracle-worker.
