Charles Ellicott Commentary John 1:39

"He saith unto them, Come, and ye shall see. They came therefore and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day: it was about the tenth hour." — John 1:39 (ASV)

Come and see.—They think of a visit later, perhaps, on the following day. He tells them to come at once.

We do not know where. We have no hint of any words spoken.

It was the sacred turning-point of the writer’s own life, and its incidents are fixed in a depth of thought and feeling that no human eye may penetrate. But he remembers the very hour.

It was, as we would say, four o’clock in the afternoon, for there is no sufficient reason for thinking that the Babylonian method of counting the hours, usual at Ephesus as at Jerusalem, is departed from in this Gospel.