Teks -- John 4:17 (NET)

4:17 The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’

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Robertson: Joh 4:17 - I have no husband

I have no husband ( ouk echō andra ).

The Greek anēr means either "man"or "husband."She had her "man,"but he was not a legal "husband."Her language veils her deceit.

Robertson: Joh 4:17 - Thou saidst well

Thou saidst well ( kalōs eipes ).

Jesus saw through the double sense of her language and read her heart as he only can do, a supernatural gift of which John often speaks (Joh 1:48; Joh 2:24.; Joh 5:20).

Robertson: Joh 4:17 - For thou hast had five husbands

For thou hast had five husbands ( pente gar andras esches ).

"For thou didst have five men."Second aorist (constative) active indicative of echō .

Robertson: Joh 4:17 - Is not thy husband

Is not thy husband ( ouk estin sou anēr ).

In the full and legal sense of anēr , not a mere "man."

Robertson: Joh 4:17 - This hast thou said truly

This hast thou said truly ( touto alēthes eirēkas ).

"This a true thing thou hast said."Note absence of article with alēthes (predicate accusative). Perfect active indicative eirēkas here, not aorist eipes (Joh 4:17).

Vincent: Joh 4:17 - Well

Well ( καλῶς )

Aptly , truly . Compare Joh 8:48; Mat 15:7; Luk 20:39.

Wesley: Joh 4:17 - Thou hast well said

We may observe in all our Lord's discourses the utmost weightiness, and yet the utmost courtesy.

JFB: Joh 4:15-18 - give me this water, &c.

This is not obtuseness--that is giving way--it expresses a wondering desire after she scarce knew what from this mysterious Stranger.

Calvin: Joh 4:17 - I have not a husband

17.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, to lead her to repentance. And, indeed, we are so intoxicated, or rather stupified, by our self-love, that we are not at all moved by the first wounds that are inflicted. But Christ applies an appropriate cure for this sluggishness, by pressing the ulcer more sharply, for he openly reproaches her with her wickedness; though I do not think that it is a single case of fornication that is here pointed out, for when he says that she has had five husbands, the reason of this probably was, that, being a froward and disobedient wife, she constrained her husbands to divorce her. I interpret the words thus: “Though God joined thee to lawful husbands, thou didst not cease to sin, until, rendered infamous by numerous divorces, thou prostitutedst thyself to fornication.”

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Poole: Joh 4:17 - I have no husband

I have no husband that is, none who is my lawful husband she denieth not that she had one whom she used and lived with as a husband, but that she had any legal husband, to whom she clave, and to no other: still she goeth on, thinking to deceive Christ, and to put tricks upon him. Christ tells her, she in this did speak truth; he knew she had no legal husband.

Gill: Joh 4:17 - The woman answered and said, I have no husband // Jesus said unto her, thou hast well said, I have no husband

The woman answered and said, I have no husband,.... Which was a truth she would not have spoke at another time and place, or to any of her neighbours; but Christ being a stranger, and no odium incurring upon her by it; and this serving a purpose to excuse her going to call him, she declares the truth of the matter:

Jesus said unto her, thou hast well said, I have no husband; this is the truth, it is really fact, and is the true state of the case, between thee and him, who goes for thy husband.