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Literal Standard Version

John 4:17

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Jacob;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Samaria;   Shechem;   Sin;   Scofield Reference Index - Bible Prayers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Character Transformed;   Conversion;   Samaritans;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Shechem;   Wells and Springs;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Sexuality, Human;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Patience;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Samaritans;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adoption;   Gospels;   Jesus Christ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hour;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   John, the Gospel of;   Marriage;   Woman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Mss;   Woman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discourse;   Fig-Tree ;   Husband ;   Individuality;   John (the Apostle);   Kenosis;   Logos;   Palestine;   Perfect Perfection;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Samaritans;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount samaria;   Samaria;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja'cob's Well,;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“I don’t have a husband,” she answered.
King James Version (1611)
The woman answered, and said, I haue no husband. Iesus said vnto her, Thou hast well said, I haue no husband:
King James Version
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
English Standard Version
The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband';
New American Standard Bible
The woman answered and said to Him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have correctly said, 'I have no husband';
New Century Version
The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right to say you have no husband.
Amplified Bible
The woman answered, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have correctly said, 'I do not have a husband';
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have correctly said, 'I have no husband';
Legacy Standard Bible
The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus *said to her, "You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband';
Berean Standard Bible
"I have no husband," the woman replied. Jesus said to her, "You are correct to say that you have no husband.
Contemporary English Version
The woman answered, "I don't have a husband." "That's right," Jesus replied, "you're telling the truth. You don't have a husband. You have already been married five times, and the man you are now living with isn't your husband."
Complete Jewish Bible
She answered, "I don't have a husband." Yeshua said to her, "You're right, you don't have a husband!
Darby Translation
The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;
Easy-to-Read Version
The woman answered, "But I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right to say you have no husband.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The woman answered, and saide, I haue no husband. Iesus said vnto her, Thou hast well said, I haue no husband.
George Lamsa Translation
She said to him, I have no husband; Jesus said to her, You said well, I have no husband;
Good News Translation
"I don't have a husband," she answered. Jesus replied, "You are right when you say you don't have a husband.
Lexham English Bible
The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have said rightly, ‘I do not have a husband,'
Literal Translation
And the woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, Well did you say, I have no husband.
American Standard Version
The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:
Bible in Basic English
In answer, the woman said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have said rightly, I have no husband:
Hebrew Names Version
The woman answered, "I have no husband." Yeshua said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,'
International Standard Version
The woman answered him, "I don't have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You are quite right in saying, 'I don't have a husband.'
Etheridge Translation
She saith to him, I have no husband. Jeshu saith to her, Well hast thou said, I have no husband;
Murdock Translation
She said to him: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast well said, I have no husband;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The woman aunswered, and sayde [vnto hym]: I haue no husbande. Iesus sayde vnto her: Thou hast well sayde, I haue no husbande.
English Revised Version
The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:
World English Bible
The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,'
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband.
Weymouth's New Testament
"I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The womman answerde, and seide, Y haue noon hosebonde. Jhesus seith to hir, Thou seidist wel, That Y haue noon hosebonde;
Update Bible Version
The woman answered and said to him, I have no husband. Jesus says to her, You said well, I have no husband:
Webster's Bible Translation
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
New English Translation
The woman replied, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,'
New King James Version
The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have well said, "I have no husband,'
New Living Translation
"I don't have a husband," the woman replied. Jesus said, "You're right! You don't have a husband—
New Life Bible
The woman said, "I have no husband." Jesus said, "You told the truth when you said, ‘I have no husband.'
New Revised Standard
The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband';
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The woman answered, and said unto him- I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her - Well, saidst thou, A husband, I have not;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well: I have no husband.
Revised Standard Version
The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband';
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The woman answered and sayde to him: I have no husband.
Young's Literal Translation
the woman answered and said, `I have not a husband.' Jesus saith to her, `Well didst thou say -- A husband I have not;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The woman answered, and sayde vnto him: I haue no hussbande.
Mace New Testament (1729)
the woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus replied, you were in the right to say you have no husband:
THE MESSAGE
"I have no husband," she said. "That's nicely put: ‘I have no husband.' You've had five husbands, and the man you're living with now isn't even your husband. You spoke the truth there, sure enough."
Simplified Cowboy Version
"I don't have one," the woman replied sheepishly.Jesus said, "I think you're putting lipstick on a pig.

Contextual Overview

4and it was necessary [for] Him to go through Samaria. 5He comes, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; 6and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was thus sitting on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour; 7there comes a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, "Give Me to drink"; 8for His disciples were gone away into the city that they may buy food; 9the Samaritan woman therefore says to Him, "How do You, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealing with Samaritans. 10Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." 11The woman says to Him, "Lord, You do not even have a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; from where, then, have You the living water? 12Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank out of it, and his sons, and his livestock?" 13Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who is drinking of this water will thirst again;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: John 4:29 - General Romans 11:20 - Well

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
and Abel, he has brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, and from their fat ones; and YHWH looks to Abel and to his present,
Genesis 4:11
and now, cursed [are] you from the ground, which has opened her mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand;
Genesis 5:18
And Jared lives one hundred and sixty-two years, and begets Enoch.
Genesis 5:22
And Enoch habitually walks with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years [[or two hundred years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:4
And they say, "Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower with its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth."
2 Samuel 18:18
And Absalom has taken, and sets up for himself in his life, the standing-pillar that [is] in the king's valley, for he said, "I have no son to cause my name to be remembered"; and he calls the standing-pillar by his own name, and it is called "The Monument of Absalom" to this day.
Psalms 49:11
Their heart [is that] their houses [are] for all time, || Their dwelling places from generation to generation. They proclaimed their names over the lands.
Daniel 4:30
the king has answered and said, "Is this not that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of my honor?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The woman answered and said, I have no husband,.... Which was a truth she would not have spoke at another time and place, or to any of her neighbours; but Christ being a stranger, and no odium incurring upon her by it; and this serving a purpose to excuse her going to call him, she declares the truth of the matter:

Jesus said unto her, thou hast well said, I have no husband; this is the truth, it is really fact, and is the true state of the case, between thee and him, who goes for thy husband.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have no husband - This was said, evidently, to evade the subject. Perhaps she feared that if she came there with the man that she lived with, the truth might be exposed. It is not improbable that by this time she began to suspect that Jesus was a prophet.

Hast well said - Hast said the truth.


 
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