He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.
He saith unto them, Come and see - His second utterance; more winning still. They came and saw where he dwelt, х menei (G3306)] - 'where He stayed' or 'abode,'
And abode [rather 'remained' emeinan (G3306 )] with him that day: [for]. This word "for" х de (G1161)] is no part of the original text, as the evidence decisively shows.
It was about the tenth hour. According to the Roman reckoning-from midnight to midnight-this would be with us ten o'clock in the morning: according to the Jewish reckoning-from six in the morning to six in the evening-the tenth hour here would be with us four in the afternoon, or within two hours of the close of the day. Olshausen, Tholuck, Ebrard, Ewald understand the Evangelist in the former sense; in which case they must have spent with our Lord a far greater length of time than, we think, is at all probable. To us there appears to be no reasonable doubt that the latter reckoning is here meant, which would make their stay about two hours, if they left precisely at the close of the Jewish day, though there is no reason to suppose this. Indeed, the Greeks of Asia Minor and the Romans themselves had latterly begun to reckon time popularly by the working day-from six to six. In this sense, Calvin, Beza, Bengel, Meyer, DeWette, van Osterzee, Alford, Webster and Wilkinson, understand the Evangelist.