Yohanes 1:39

1:39 Jesus ¹  answered, ²  “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o’clock in the afternoon. ³ 

Yohanes 1:51

1:51 He continued, ⁴  “I tell all of you the solemn truth ⁵  – you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” ⁶ 

Yohanes 16:17

16:17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ⁷  ‘In a little while you ⁸  will not see me; again after a little while, you ⁹  will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” ¹⁰ 

Yohanes 16:19

16:19 Jesus could see ¹¹  that they wanted to ask him about these things, ¹²  so ¹³  he said to them, “Are you asking ¹⁴  each other about this – that I said, ‘In a little while you ¹⁵  will not see me; again after a little while, you ¹⁶  will see me’?

[1:39]  ¹ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:39]  ² tn Grk “said to them.”

[1:39]  ³ tn Grk “about the tenth hour.”

[1:39]  sn About four o’clock in the afternoon. What system of time reckoning is the author using? B. F. Westcott thought John, unlike the synoptic gospels, was using Roman time, which started at midnight (St. John, 282). This would make the time 10 a.m., which would fit here. But later in the Gospel’s Passover account (John 19:42, where the sixth hour is on the “eve of the Passover”) it seems clear the author had to be using Jewish reckoning, which began at 6 a.m. This would make the time here in 1:39 to be 4 p.m. This may be significant: If the hour was late, Andrew and the unnamed disciple probably spent the night in the same house where Jesus was staying, and the events of 1:41-42 took place on the next day. The evidence for Westcott’s view, that the Gospel is using Roman time, is very slim. The Roman reckoning which started at midnight was only used by authorities as legal time (for contracts, official documents, etc.). Otherwise, the Romans too reckoned time from 6 a.m. (e.g., Roman sundials are marked VI, not XII, for noon).

[1:51]  ⁴ tn Grk “and he said to him.”

[1:51]  ⁵ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[1:51]  ⁶ sn The title Son of Man appears 13 times in John’s Gospel. It is associated especially with the themes of crucifixion (3:14; 8:28), revelation (6:27; 6:53), and eschatological authority (5:27; 9:35). The title as used in John’s Gospel has for its background the son of man figure who appears in Dan 7:13-14 and is granted universal regal authority. Thus for the author, the emphasis in this title is not on Jesus’ humanity, but on his heavenly origin and divine authority.

[16:17]  ⁷ tn Grk “What is this that he is saying to us.”

[16:17]  ⁸ tn Grk “A little while, and you.”

[16:17]  ⁹ tn Grk “and again a little while, and you.”

[16:17]  ¹⁰ sn These fragmentary quotations of Jesus’ statements are from 16:16 and 16:10, and indicate that the disciples heard only part of what Jesus had to say to them on this occasion.

[16:19]  ¹¹ tn Grk “knew.”

[16:19]  sn Jesus could see. Supernatural knowledge of what the disciples were thinking is not necessarily in view here. Given the disciples’ confused statements in the preceding verses, it was probably obvious to Jesus that they wanted to ask what he meant.

[16:19]  ¹² tn The words “about these things” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[16:19]  ¹³ tn Καί (kai) has been translated as “so” here to indicate the following statement is a result of Jesus’ observation in v. 19a.

[16:19]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “inquiring” or “seeking.”

[16:19]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “A little while, and you.”

[16:19]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “and again a little while, and you.”