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for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."
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A Display of Divine Knowledge
Commentators agree that Jesus's knowledge of the woman's five husbands and current unlawful relationship was a supernatural revelation. This wasn't a clever guess but a demonstration of His divine omniscience. By laying bare the secret details of her life, Jesus proved His authority and that He could see directly into her heart, a truth that stunned her.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
In that you said truly.—The stroke goes deeper. It lays bare the secrets of all those years over which she thought the ve…
Baptist
For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: in that you spoke truly. The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive t…
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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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
At Jesus answered and said to her, the Evangelist gives us Christ’s spiritual teaching.
First, he gives the teaching itse…
