John 4:16

“Go and call your husband, and come back here,” Jesus told her.

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In The King James Version

Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

In Context

15“Sir,” replied the woman, “Please give me this water so I won't be thirsty, and I won't have to come here to fetch water!”

17“I don't have a husband,” the woman answered. “You're right in saying you don't have a husband,” Jesus told her.

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Cross References

John 1:47As Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said about him, “Look, here's a true Israelite! There's nothing false about him.”

John 4:18“You've had five husbands, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. So what you say is true!”

Hebrews 4:13No living being is hidden from his sight; everything is exposed and visible to the one we're accountable to.

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 →

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