Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comRobertson Word Pictures - John 1:39 - 1:39
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Come and ye shall see (erchesthe kai opsesthe). Polite invitation and definite promise (future middle indicative opsesthe from horaō, correct text, not imperative idete).
Where he abode (pou menei). Indirect question preserving the present active indicative after secondary tense (eidan, saw) according to regular Greek idiom. Same verb menō as in Joh 1:38.
With him (par' autōi). “By his side,” “beside him.”
That day (tēn hēmeran ekeinēn). Accusative of extent of time, all during that day.
About the tenth hour (hōra hōs dekatē). Roman time and so ten o’clock in the morning. John in Ephesus at the close of the century naturally uses Roman time. See Joh 20:19 “evening on that day,” clearly Roman time. Thus also Joh 19:14 (sixth hour, morning) and Mar 15:25 (third hour, nine a.m.) suit. To his latest day John never forgot the hour when first he met Jesus.