They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. 'Sir,' they said, 'we would like to see Jesus' — the Greeks approach Philip (a disciple with a Greek name, from a Galilean city) with the simple request to 'see Jesus.' In John's Gospel, seeing Jesus is spiritual as well as physical: it involves perception, understanding, and encounter with the divine.

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