Hast had five husbands. Who have either died; or who, on account of your improper conduct, have divorced you; or whom you have left improp…

In that you said truly.—The stroke goes deeper. It lays bare the secrets of all those years over which she thought the ve…

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

The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You …

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

Jesus shocked the woman when he lifted the curtain on her past life. The conversation had passed from the small-talk stage to the personal. Her evi…

For you have had five husbands
Which she either had had lawfully, and had buried one after another; and which was no…

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…