Go, call thy husband (Hυπαγε φωνησον σου τον ανδρα). Two imperatives (present active, first aorist active). Had she started to lea…

Go call thy husband. We may admire the manner our Saviour took to lead her to perceive that he was the Christ. His instructions she did no…

Go, call thy husband.—She has asked for this living water. She does not know that the well must first be dug. In the depth of her spirit t…

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

The woman answered and said, I have no husband.

And, a…

St. John Chrysostom: To the woman’s question, “Are you greater than our father Jacob?” He does not reply, “I am greater,” lest…

Jesus’ request to call her husband was both proper and strategic—proper because it was not regarded as good etiquette for a woman to talk with a ma…

Call thy husband. This appears to have no connection with the subject; indeed, one might suppose that Christ, annoyed and put to shame by …

Jesus says to her
Observing that she continued an ignorant scoffer at him, and his words, determined to take another …

There was great hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews. Christ's road from Judea to Galilee lay through Samaria. We should not go into places o…

1. At Jesus answered and said to her, the Evangelist gives us Christ’s spiritual teaching.

   First, he gives the teaching itse…