We would like to see Jesus
Jeremiah 31: 31-34; John 12: 20-33 ‘We would like to see Jesus.’ I would like to see Jesus – wouldn’t you? Out of curiosity, if nothing else - wouldn’t it be fascinating to know exactly what Jesus looked like. Did he look particularly kind (I hope so) or wise (I expect so). Was there anything in the way he looked which gave a hint to his identity as the son of God? Yet all four gospels remain frustratingly silent on the subject of what Jesus looked like – because they’re far too busy wanting to give us the good news about who Jesus was, and what he did and said. So John’s story of the Greeks who say ‘We would like to see Jesus’ is so much more than just a story of idle curiosity of wondering what Jesus looked like: it cuts to the heart of who Jesus is and what he has come to do. These Greeks are in Jerusalem for the Passover festival, they have come to worship God. And presumably they have heard something of Jesus of Nazareth. So they come to Philip and ask ‘Sir, we would lik