John 12:20-24 NRSVue

²⁰Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. ²¹They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” ²²Philip went and told Andrew, then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. ²³Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. ²⁴Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies it bears much fruit.

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Some thoughts on this scripture

Reflection
What the Greeks asked of Philip is what Christians have been seeking in the Gospels and in pilgrimages for two thousand years: /We wish to see Jesus/. When they found him, they heard those pregnant words: /a grain of wheat has to die before it bears fruit/. Only in Jesus have we a person and a philosophy which makes sense of suffering and death, and which sees the life beyond them.