John 4:17

Complete Jewish Bible

She answered, "I don't have a husband." Yeshua said to her, "You're right, you don't have a husband!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“I don’t have a husband,” she answered.

King James Version (1611)
The woman answered, and said, I haue no husband. Iesus said vnto her, Thou hast well said, I haue no husband:

King James Version
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

English Standard Version
The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband';

New American Standard Bible
The woman answered and said to Him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have correctly said, 'I have no husband';

New Century Version
The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right to say you have no husband.

Amplified Bible
The woman answered, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have correctly said, 'I do not have a husband';

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have correctly said, 'I have no husband';

Legacy Standard Bible
The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus *said to her, "You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband';

Berean Standard Bible
"I have no husband," the woman replied. Jesus said to her, "You are correct to say that you have no husband.

Contemporary English Version
The woman answered, "I don't have a husband." "That's right," Jesus replied, "you're telling the truth. You don't have a husband. You have already been married five times, and the man you are now living with isn't your husband."

Darby Translation
The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;

Easy-to-Read Version
The woman answered, "But I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right to say you have no husband.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The woman answered, and saide, I haue no husband. Iesus said vnto her, Thou hast well said, I haue no husband.

George Lamsa Translation
She said to him, I have no husband; Jesus said to her, You said well, I have no husband;

Good News Translation
"I don't have a husband," she answered. Jesus replied, "You are right when you say you don't have a husband.

Lexham English Bible
The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have said rightly, ‘I do not have a husband,'

Literal Translation
And the woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, Well did you say, I have no husband.

American Standard Version
The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:

Bible in Basic English
In answer, the woman said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have said rightly, I have no husband:

Hebrew Names Version
The woman answered, "I have no husband." Yeshua said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,'

International Standard Version
The woman answered him, "I don't have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You are quite right in saying, 'I don't have a husband.'

Etheridge Translation
She saith to him, I have no husband. Jeshu saith to her, Well hast thou said, I have no husband;

Murdock Translation
She said to him: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast well said, I have no husband;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The woman aunswered, and sayde [vnto hym]: I haue no husbande. Iesus sayde vnto her: Thou hast well sayde, I haue no husbande.

English Revised Version
The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:

World English Bible
The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,'

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband.

Weymouth's New Testament
"I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The womman answerde, and seide, Y haue noon hosebonde. Jhesus seith to hir, Thou seidist wel, That Y haue noon hosebonde;

Update Bible Version
The woman answered and said to him, I have no husband. Jesus says to her, You said well, I have no husband:

Webster's Bible Translation
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

New English Translation
The woman replied, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,'

New King James Version
The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have well said, "I have no husband,'

New Living Translation
"I don't have a husband," the woman replied. Jesus said, "You're right! You don't have a husband—

New Life Bible
The woman said, "I have no husband." Jesus said, "You told the truth when you said, ‘I have no husband.'

New Revised Standard
The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband';

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The woman answered, and said unto him- I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her - Well, saidst thou, A husband, I have not;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well: I have no husband.

Revised Standard Version
The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband';

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The woman answered and sayde to him: I have no husband.

Young's Literal Translation
the woman answered and said, `I have not a husband.' Jesus saith to her, `Well didst thou say -- A husband I have not;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The woman answered, and sayde vnto him: I haue no hussbande.

Mace New Testament (1729)
the woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus replied, you were in the right to say you have no husband:

THE MESSAGE
"I have no husband," she said. "That's nicely put: ‘I have no husband.' You've had five husbands, and the man you're living with now isn't even your husband. You spoke the truth there, sure enough."

Simplified Cowboy Version
"I don't have one," the woman replied sheepishly.Jesus said, "I think you're putting lipstick on a pig.

Contextual Overview

⁴ This meant that he had to pass through Shomron. ⁵ He came to a town in Shomron called Sh'khem, near the field Ya‘akov had given to his son Yosef. ⁶ Ya‘akov's Well was there; so Yeshua, exhausted from his travel, sat down by the well; it was about noon. ⁷ A woman from Shomron came to draw some water; and Yeshua said to her, "Give me a drink of water." ⁸ (His talmidim had gone into town to buy food.) ⁹ The woman from Shomron said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for water from me, a woman of Shomron?" (For Jews don't associate with people from Shomron.) ¹⁰ Yeshua answered her, "If you knew God's gift, that is, who it is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink of water,' then you would have asked him; and he would have given you living water." ¹¹ She said to him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep; so where do you get this ‘living water'? ¹² You aren't greater than our father Ya‘akov, are you? He gave us this well and drank from it, and so did his sons and his cattle." ¹³ Yeshua answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: John 4:29 - General Romans 11:20 - Well

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
and Hevel too brought from the firstborn of his sheep, including their fat. Adonai accepted Hevel and his offering

Genesis 4:11
Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood at your hands.

Genesis 5:18
Yered lived 162 years and fathered Hanokh.

Genesis 5:22
After Metushelach was born, Hanokh walked with God 300 years and had sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city with a tower that has its top reaching up into heaven, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."

2 Samuel 18:18
In his own lifetime Avshalom had taken and raised for himself the pillar which stands in the King's Valley; because he said, "I don't have a son to preserve the memory of my name." So he named the pillar after himself, and it's called Avshalom's Monument to this day.

Psalms 49:11
For he can see that wise men will die, likewise the fool and the brute will perish and leave their wealth to others.

Daniel 4:30
"Within the hour the word was fulfilled. N'vukhadnetzar was driven from human society, he ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have no husband - This was said, evidently, to evade the subject. Perhaps she feared that if she came there with the man that she lived with, the truth might be exposed. It is not improbable that by this time she began to suspect that Jesus was a prophet.

Hast well said - Hast said the truth.