world has gone after him” (12:19). The narrator immediately adds, “Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks” (12:20). The Gospel’s sense of “the world” includes ever-widening circles that encompass Jews, Samaritans, and Greeks. This “world” to which Jesus comes is also alienated from the God who made it. This is evident in the resistance Jesus encounters from his Jewish opponents. Before going to Jerusalem, Jesus says that the world hates him because he testifies that