Yohanes 4:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

sebab engkau sudah mempunyai lima suami dan yang ada sekarang padamu, bukanlah suamimu. Dalam hal ini engkau berkata benar."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
sebab engkau sudah mempunyai lima suami dan yang ada sekarang padamu, bukanlah suamimu. Dalam hal ini engkau berkata benar."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
karena lima orang sudah jadi lakimu, dan yang sekarang ada padamu, itulah memang bukan lakimu. Benarlah katamu itu."

Contextual Overview

⁴ For [it was so that] he must needes go through Samaria. ⁵ Then came he to a citie of Samaria, which is called Sichar, besydes the possession that Iacob gaue to his sonne Ioseph. ⁶ And there was Iacobs well. Iesus then beyng wery of his iourney, sate thus on the well. And it was about the sixt houre: ⁷ And there came a woman of Samaria to drawe water: Iesus sayth vnto her, geue me drynke. ⁸ For his disciples were gone away, vnto the towne to bye meate. ⁹ Then sayth the woman of Samaria vnto hym: Howe is it, that thou beyng a Iewe, askest drynke of me, which am a Samaritane? For the Iewes meddle not with the Samaritanes. ¹⁰ Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto her: yf thou knewest the gyft of God, & who it is that sayeth to thee geue me drynke, thou wouldest haue asked of hym, and he woulde haue geuen thee water of lyfe. ¹¹ The woman sayth vnto hym: Syr, thou hast nothyng to drawe with, and the well is deepe: from whence then hast thou that water of lyfe? ¹² Art thou greater then our father Iacob, which gaue vs the well, and he hym selfe dranke therof, and his chyldren, and his cattell? ¹³ Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto her: Whosoeuer drynketh of this water, shal thyrst agayne:

Bible Verse Review
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is not: Genesis 20:3, Genesis 34:2, Genesis 34:7, Genesis 34:8, Genesis 34:31, Numbers 5:29, Ruth 4:10, Jeremiah 3:20, Ezekiel 16:32, Mark 10:12, Romans 7:3, 1 Corinthians 7:10, 1 Corinthians 7:11, Hebrews 13:4

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 16:35 - O harlot John 4:16 - Go John 4:29 - General Romans 11:20 - Well

Cross-References

Genesis 5:21
Henoch lyued sixtie and fiue yeres, & begate Methuselah.

Genesis 36:2
Esau toke his wiues of ye daughters of Chanaan: Ada ye daughter of Ebon an Hethite, and Aholibama the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sibeon an Heuite,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou hast had five husbands,.... Which she either had had lawfully, and had buried one after another; and which was no crime, and might be: the Sadducees propose a case to Christ, in which a woman is said to have had seven husbands successively, in a lawful manner, Matthew 22:25. Or rather, she had had so many, and had been divorced from everyone of them, for adultery; for no other cause it should seem did the Samaritans divorce; seeing that they only received the law of Moses, and rejected, at least, many of the traditions of the elders; and since they are particularly said y

"not to be expert in the law of marriages and divorces:''

and the rather this may seem to be the case, as Dr. Lightfoot observes; since these husbands are mentioned, as well as he with whom she lived in an adulterous manner; and which suggests, that she had not lived honestly with them:

and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband; that is, not thy lawful husband, as the Persic version reads, and Nonnus paraphrases; being not married to him at all, though they cohabited as man and wife, when there was no such relation between them:

in that saidst thou truly; or that which is truth: thus Christ the omniscient God, who knew her full well, and the whole of her past infamous conversation, and her present lewd and wicked way of living, exposes all unto her.

y T. Bab. Kiddushin, fol 76. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hast had five husbands - Who have either died; or who, on account of your improper conduct, have divorced you; or whom you have left improperly, without legal divorce. Either of these might have be. en the case.

Is not thy husband - You are not lawfully married to him. Either she might have left a former husband without divorce, and thus her marriage with this man was unlawful, or she was living with him without the form of marriage, in open guilt.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 4:18. Thou hast had five husbands — It is not clear that this woman was a prostitute: she might have been legally married to those five, and might have been divorced through some misbehaviour of her own, not amounting to adultery; for the adulteress was to be put to death, both by the Jewish and Samaritan law, not divorced: or she might have been cast off through some caprice of her husband; for, in the time of our Lord, divorces were very common among the Jews, so that a man put away his wife for any fault. Matthew 5:31. Some are so very fond of exaggerating that nothing can pass through their hands without an increase: hence Heracleon says she had six husbands, and Jerome modestly gives her twenty-two! Viginti duos habuisti maritos, et ille a quo sepelieris non est tuus. "Thou hast had twenty-two husbands and he by whom thou shalt be buried is not thine." Epist. xi.

He whom thou now hast is not thy husband — Νυν ὁν εχεις, ουκ εϚι σου ανηρ. Bishop Pearce would translate this clause in the following manner: There is no husband whom thou now hast-or, less literally, Thou hast no husband now: probably the meaning is, Thou art contracted to another, but not yet brought home: therefore he is not yet thy husband. See Rosenmuller. Bishop Pearce contends that our Lord did not speak these words to her by way of reproof:

1. Because it is not likely that a woman so far advanced in years as to have had five husbands should have now been found living in adultery with a sixth person.

2. Because it is not likely that our Lord would not, in some part of his discourse, have reproved her for her fornication, especially if guilty of it under such gross circumstances.

3. Nor is it likely that a woman of so bad a life should have had so much influence with the people of her city that they should, on her testimony, John 4:39-42, believe Jesus to be the Messiah.

4. Nor is it at all likely that when a discovery of her guilt was made to her, by one whom she acknowledged to be a prophet, John 4:19, the first thing which came into her thoughts should be the important question in religion, about the place appointed by God for his worship, so warmly contested between the Jews and Samaritans.

5. Nor is it at all probable that a person of such a bad life, without any mentioned sign of repentance, should have been the first (perhaps the only private person) to whom Jesus is recorded as declaring himself to be the Christ, as he does to her, John 4:26.