What did Jesus mean when he said the hour had come for the Greeks to hear?
Jesus was speaking of His approaching death, burial, and resurrection. The Greeks' request signaled that the hour had arrived when, through His death and resurrection, He would become the kernel of wheat that dies, abiding alone no longer, and bring forth much fruit among Gentiles.
Les explains that all the way through Jesus' earthly ministry He had told the disciples not to go into the way of the Gentiles, and He ignored them, even when the Greeks wanted to see Him at the Passover feast. Instead of bringing them in, He told Andrew and Philip to tell those Greeks that the hour cometh, speaking of His death, burial, and resurrection: unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abideth alone, but if it dies, it bringeth forth much fruit. This was a change in format, because Saul was later chosen as a vessel to bear Jesus' name before the Gentiles.
And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
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