John 4:18

for you have had five husbands, and now, he whom you have is not your husband; you have said this correctly.”

Literal Standard Version

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

17the woman answered and said, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus says to her, “Well did you say—I do not have a husband;

19The woman says to Him, “Lord, I perceive that You are a prophet;

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Cross References

Genesis 20:3And God comes to Abimelech in a dream of the night and says to him, “Behold, you [are] a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken—and she married to a husband.”

Genesis 34:7and the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieve themselves, and it [is] very displeasing to them, for folly he has done against Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob—and so it is not done.

Numbers 5:29This [is] the law of jealousies when a wife turns aside under her husband and has been defiled,

Jeremiah 3:20But a woman has deceived her friend, || So you have dealt treacherously with Me, || O house of Israel,” || A declaration of YHWH.

Ezekiel 16:35Therefore, O whore, hear a word of YHWH!

John 4:16Jesus says to her, “Go, call your 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 →

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