Monday, March 30
Printable version of this week’s devotional.
Read John 12:20-22. In the preceding verses, Jesus entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey. Greeks had come to worship at the Passover Feast. Perhaps they had made a pilgrimage. In asking to see Jesus they are asking for more than a meeting…they want to stay with him; to become disciples. Andrew and Phillip, the first disciples to be called are faced with gentiles who wish to follow Jesus. They are asked to widen ‘their circle’…to share the traditional promises of God to the Jewish people with those who were not considered ‘chosen’. What questions might you have of these Greek ‘newcomers’? How would you describe their arrival to Jesus?
