John 4:18
for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”
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In Context
17The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’
19The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
Cross References
Genesis 20:3But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”
Genesis 34:7The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing that ought not to be done.
Numbers 5:29“‘This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled,
Jeremiah 3:20“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says the LORD.
Ezekiel 16:35“Therefore, prostitute, hear the LORD’s word:
John 4:16Jesus said 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 →