John 4:18
For thou have had five husbands, and he whom thou now have is not thy husband. This thou have said true.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19The woman says to him, Sir, I perceive that thou are a prophet.
Cross References
Genesis 20:3But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou are but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou have taken, for she is a man's wife.
Genesis 34:7And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel in laying with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.
Numbers 5:29This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes aside, and is defiled,
Jeremiah 3:20Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so ye have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says LORD.
Ezekiel 16:35Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of LORD.
John 4:16Jesus says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come here.
Matthew Henry on John 4:5-27
Christ at the Well of Samaria. 4 And he must needs go through Samaria. 5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) 9 Then saith the woman of Samaria… Read the whole commentary →