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A Necessary Shift in Strategy
Commentators agree that Jesus's command to "call thy husband" is not a random change of topic. When his spiritual teaching wasn't understood, he strategically shifted to a personal matter. This was a deliberate move to engage her conscience and reveal her personal need for the very "living water" he was offering.
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Albert Barnes
On John 4:16
18th Century
Theologian
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…
AT Robertson
On John 4:16
Go, call thy husband (Hυπαγε φωνησον σου τον ανδρα). Two imperatives (present active, first aorist active). Had she started to lea…
Charles Ellicott
On John 4:16
19th Century
Bishop
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…
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Charles Spurgeon
On John 4:16–19
19th Century
Preacher
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 …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 4:16
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…
John Calvin
On John 4:16
16th Century
Theologian
Call thy husband. This appears to have no connection with the subject; indeed, one might suppose that Christ, annoyed and put to shame by …
John Gill
On John 4:16
17th Century
Pastor
Jesus says to her
Observing that she continued an ignorant scoffer at him, and his words, determined to take another …
Matthew Henry
On John 4:4–26
17th Century
Minister
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…