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25. Ἦν δὲ ὥρα τρίτη. Mk alone gives this note of the hour, which creates a difficulty with Joh 19:14, where the Ecce Homo is placed at the sixth hour. Suggestions of a false reading in either place may be rejected, and forced interpretations of plain language are unsatisfactory. The least unsatisfactory solution is the not quite baseless conjecture that Jn reckoned time as we do, and that his sixth hour is our 6.0 a.m., but it can hardly be called probable. See notes ad loc. On a day of exceptional excitement, with prolonged darkness at midday, traditions as to the time of day might be very confused and divergent; but a difference of two or more hours can hardly be explained in this manner.
καὶ ἐσταύρωσαν αὐτόν. The καί couples the fact of crucifixion already mentioned with the time of day, so that καί = ὅτε, which some cursives substitute. We sometimes use “and” in the sense of “when”; “it was noon and he arrived.”