I have no husband (ουκ εχω ανδρα). The Greek ανηρ means either "man" or "husband." She had her "man," but he was not a legal "husb…

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 w…

I have no husband.—The stroke has left its mark. It lays bare to her own consciousness the past and present life, but she does not…

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…

I have not a husband. We do not yet fully perceive the fruit of this advice, by which Christ intended to pierce the heart of this woman, t…

The woman answered and said, I have no husband
Which was a truth she would not have spoken at another time or place,…

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…