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!”

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In The King James Version

For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

In Context

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

19“I can see you're a prophet, sir,” the woman replied.

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Cross References

Genesis 20:3But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “Listen! You're going to die because the woman you've taken is already married—she has a husband.”

Genesis 34:7When Jacob's sons returned from the fields they were very upset when they heard the news and became extremely angry because Shechem had done something outrageous in Israel by having sex with Jacob's daughter—something that should never be done.

Numbers 5:29This is the rule to follow in cases of jealousy when a wife has an affair and makes herself unclean while married to her husband,

Jeremiah 3:20But just like a wife might betray her husband, you have betrayed me, people of Israel, declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:35So, you prostitute, listen to the message from the Lord!

John 4:16“Go and call your husband, and come back here,” Jesus told her.

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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