John 4:16

Green's Literal Translation

Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband and come here.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
"Go get your husband," Jesus told her.

Legacy Standard Bible
He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come back here."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."

Bible in Basic English
Jesus said to her, Go, get your husband and come back here with him.

Darby Translation
Jesus says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come here.

New King James Version
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

Christian Standard Bible®
"Go call your husband," He told her, "and come back here."

World English Bible
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Jesus saith to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back."

King James Version (1611)
Iesus saith vnto her, Goe, call thy husband, and come hither.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus sayde vnto her: Go, call they hussbande, and come hither.

Mace New Testament (1729)
go, call your husband, said Jesus, and come again.

THE MESSAGE
He said, "Go call your husband and then come back."

Amplified Bible
At this, Jesus said, "Go, call your husband and come back."

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

Revised Standard Version
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iesus sayde vnto her. Go and call thy husband and come hydder.

Update Bible Version
He says to her, Go, call your husband, and come here.

Webster's Bible Translation
Jesus saith to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

New Century Version
Jesus told her, "Go get your husband and come back here."

New English Translation
He said to her, "Go call your husband and come back here."

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told her, "Go and bring your husband."

Complete Jewish Bible
He said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Iesus said vnto her, Go, call thine husband, and come hither.

George Lamsa Translation
Jesus said to her, Go and call your husband, and come here.

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

International Standard Version
He said to her, "Go and call your husband, and come back here."

Etheridge Translation
Jeshu saith to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

Murdock Translation
Jesus said to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

New Living Translation
"Go and get your husband," Jesus told her.

New Life Bible
Jesus said to her, "Go call your husband and come back."

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

Berean Standard Bible
Jesus told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."

New Revised Standard
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He saith unto her - Go, call thy husband, and come hither!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

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

Lexham English Bible
He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iesus sayth vnto her: Go, call thy husbande, and come hyther.

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus told her, "Go get your husband and come back."

English Standard Version
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

New American Standard Bible
He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."

Good News Translation
"Go and call your husband," Jesus told her, "and come back."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Jhesus seith to hir, Go, clepe thin hosebonde, and come hidir.

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus saith to her, `Go, call thy husband, and come hither;'

Contextual Overview

⁴ And it was needful for Him to pass through Samaria. ⁵ And He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the piece of land Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ And Jacob's fountain was there. Then being wearied by the journey, Jesus sat thus on the fountain. It was about the sixth hour. ⁷ A woman came out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give Me some to drink. ⁸ For His disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions. ⁹ Then the Samaritan woman said to Him, How do You, being a Jew, ask to drink from me, I being a Samaritan woman? For Jews do not deal with Samaritans. ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who is the One saying to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked Him, and He would give you living water. ¹¹ The woman said to Him, Sir, You have no vessel, and the well is deep. From where then do You have living water? ¹² Are You greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and he and his sons and his livestock drank out of it? ¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone drinking of this water will thirst again;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Go: John 4:18, John 1:42, John 1:47, John 1:48, John 2:24, John 2:25, John 21:17, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:23

Cross-References

Genesis 3:8
And they heard the sound of Jehovah God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the face of Jehovah God in the middle of the trees of the garden.

Genesis 4:14
Behold! You have driven me out from the face of the earth today. And I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth. And it will be that anyone who finds me shall kill me.

Exodus 20:18
And all the people saw the thunders, and the lightnings, and the sound of the ram's horn, and the smoking mountain. And the people looked, and they trembled, and they stood from a distance.

2 Kings 13:23
And Jehovah was gracious to them, and pitied them, and turned toward them, for the sake of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and was not willing to destroy them, nor to cast them out from His presence as yet.

2 Kings 24:20
For through the anger of Jehovah it happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He had cast them out from His face, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Job 1:12
And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that is his is in your hand! Only, do not lay your hand on him. And Satan went out from the face of Jehovah.

Job 2:7
And Satan went out from before the face of Jehovah. And he struck Job with bad burning ulcers from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.

Job 20:17
He shall not see the rivers, the flowings of torrents of honey and curd;

Psalms 5:11
But let all who put their trust in You rejoice; let them shout for joy forever, because You cover them. And let those who love Your name be joyful in You.

Psalms 68:2
As smoke is driven away, You drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked perish in God's presence.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Jesus saith unto her,.... Observing that she continued an ignorant scoffer at him, and his words, determined to take another method with her; and convince her, that he was not a common and ordinary person she was conversing with, as she took him to be; and also what a sinner she was, and what a vicious course of life she had lived; so that she might see that she stood in need of him, as the gift of God, and Saviour of men; and of the grace he had been speaking of, under the notion of living water: saying to her,

go, call thy husband, and come hither; go directly from hence to the city of Sychar, and call thy husband, and come back hither along with him again: this Christ said, not to have him come to teach and instruct him, and as if he would more readily and easily understand him, and that he might be with her, a partaker of the same grace; but to bring on some further conversation, by which she would understand that he knew her state and condition, and what a course of life she now lived, and so bring her under a conviction of her sin and danger, and need of him and his grace.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Go call thy husband - We may admire the manner which our Saviour took to lead her to perceive that he was the Christ. His instructions she did not understand. He therefore proceeded to show her that he was acquainted with her life and with her sins. His object, here, was to lead her to consider her own state and sinfulness - a delicate and yet pungent way of making her see that she was a sinner. By showing her, also, that he knew her life, though a stranger to her, he convinced her that he was qualified to teach her the way to heaven, and thus prepared her to admit that he was the Messiah, John 4:29.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 4:16. Call thy husband — Our Lord appears to have spoken these words for two purposes:

1. To make the woman consider her own state.

2. To show her that he knew her heart, and the secret actions of her life; and was therefore well qualified to teach her heavenly truths.