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Selected Verse: John 4:16 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joh 4:16 |
Strong Concordance |
Jesus [2424] saith [3004] unto her [846], Go [5217], call [5455] thy [4675] husband [435], and [2532] come [2064] hither [1759]. |
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King James |
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| call thy husband--now proceeding to arouse her slumbering conscience by laying bare the guilty life she was leading, and by the minute details which that life furnished, not only bringing her sin vividly up before her, but preparing her to receive in His true character that wonderful Stranger to whom her whole life, in its minutest particulars, evidently lay open. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Go call thy husband - We may admire the manner which our Saviour took to lead her to perceive that he was the Christ. His instructions she did not understand. He therefore proceeded to show her that he was acquainted with her life and with her sins. His object, here, was to lead her to consider her own state and sinfulness - a delicate and yet pungent way of making her see that she was a sinner. By showing her, also, that he knew her life, though a stranger to her, he convinced her that he was qualified to teach her the way to heaven, and thus prepared her to admit that he was the Messiah, Joh 4:29. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Husband (ἄνδρα)
See on Joh 1:30. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Jesus saith to her - He now clears the way that he might give her a better kind of water than she asked for. Go, call thy husband - He strikes directly at her bosom sin. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Call thy husband - Our Lord appears to have spoken these words for two purposes:
1. To make the woman consider her own state.
2. To show her that he knew her heart, and the secret actions of her life; and was therefore well qualified to teach her heavenly truths. |
29 Come [1205], see [1492] a man [444], which [3739] told [2036] me [3427] all things [3956] that ever [3745] I did [4160]: is [2076] not [3385] this [3778] the Christ [5547]?
30 This [3778] is he [2076] of [4012] whom [3739] I [1473] said [2036], After [3694] me [3450] cometh [2064] a man [435] which [3739] is preferred [1096] before [1715] me [3450]: for [3754] he was [2258] before [4413] me [3450].