John 4:18
For you have had five husbands, but he whom you have now is not your husband. You have spoken this in truth.”
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In Context
19The woman said to him: “Lord, I see that you are a Prophet.
Cross References
Genesis 20:3Then God came to Abimelech through a dream in the night, and he said to him: “Lo, you shall die because of the woman that you have taken. For she has a husband.”
Genesis 34:7behold, his sons arrived from the field. And hearing what had happened, they were very angry, because he had done a filthy thing in Israel and, in violating a daughter of Jacob, had perpetrated an unlawful act.
Numbers 5:29This is the law for jealousy. If a woman has turned aside from her husband, and if she has been polluted,
Jeremiah 3:20But, in the same way that a woman spurns her lover, so also has the house of Israel spurned me, says the Lord.”
Ezekiel 16:35Because of this, O harlot, listen to the word of the Lord.
John 4:16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and return 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 →