John 4:16

Christian Standard Bible ®

“Go call your husband,”

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
Iesus saith vnto her, Goe, call thy husband, and come hither.

King James Version
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

English Standard Version
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

New American Standard Bible
He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."

New Century Version
Jesus told her, "Go get your husband and come back here."

Amplified Bible
At this, Jesus said, "Go, call your husband and come back."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."

Legacy Standard Bible
He *said to her, "Go, call your husband and come back here."

Berean Standard Bible
Jesus told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told her, "Go and bring your husband."

Complete Jewish Bible
He said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back."

Darby Translation
Jesus says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come here.

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus told her, "Go get your husband and come back."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Iesus said vnto her, Go, call thine husband, and come hither.

George Lamsa Translation
Jesus said to her, Go and call your husband, and come here.

Good News Translation
"Go and call your husband," Jesus told her, "and come back."

Lexham English Bible
He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."

Literal Translation
Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband and come here.

American Standard Version
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

Bible in Basic English
Jesus said to her, Go, get your husband and come back here with him.

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

International Standard Version
He said to her, "Go and call your husband, and come back here."

Etheridge Translation
Jeshu saith to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

Murdock Translation
Jesus said to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iesus sayth vnto her: Go, call thy husbande, and come hyther.

English Revised Version
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

World English Bible
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Jesus saith to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Jhesus seith to hir, Go, clepe thin hosebonde, and come hidir.

Update Bible Version
He says to her, Go, call your husband, and come here.

Webster's Bible Translation
Jesus saith to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

New English Translation
He said to her, "Go call your husband and come back here."

New King James Version
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

New Living Translation
"Go and get your husband," Jesus told her.

New Life Bible
Jesus said to her, "Go call your husband and come back."

New Revised Standard
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He saith unto her - Go, call thy husband, and come hither!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

Revised Standard Version
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iesus sayde vnto her. Go and call thy husband and come hydder.

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus saith to her, `Go, call thy husband, and come hither;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus sayde vnto her: Go, call they hussbande, and come hither.

Mace New Testament (1729)
go, call your husband, said Jesus, and come again.

THE MESSAGE
He said, "Go call your husband and then come back."

Simplified Cowboy Version
"Go get your husband," Jesus told her.

Contextual Overview

⁴He had to travel through Samaria; ⁵so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph. ⁶Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon. ⁷A woman of Samaria came to draw water. ⁸because his disciples had gone into town to buy food. ⁹“How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. ¹⁰Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, ¹¹“Sir,” said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this ‘living water’? ¹²You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.” ¹³Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Go: John 4:18, John 1:42, John 1:47, John 1:48, John 2:24, John 2:25, John 21:17, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:23

Cross-References

Genesis 3:8
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 4:14
Since you are banishing me today from the face of the earth, and I must hide from your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”

Exodus 20:18
All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance.

2 Kings 13:23
but the Lord was gracious to them, had compassion on them, and turned toward them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was not willing to destroy them. Even now he has not banished them from his presence.

2 Kings 24:20
Because of the Lord’s anger, it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he finally banished them from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Job 1:12
“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, do not lay a hand on Job himself.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence.

Job 2:7
So Satan left the Lord’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

Job 20:17
He will not enjoy the streams,the rivers flowing with honey and curds.

Psalms 5:11
But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;let them shout for joy forever.May you shelter them,and may those who love your name boast about you.

Psalms 68:2
As smoke is blown away,so you blow them away.As wax melts before the fire,so the wicked are destroyed before God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Jesus saith unto her,.... Observing that she continued an ignorant scoffer at him, and his words, determined to take another method with her; and convince her, that he was not a common and ordinary person she was conversing with, as she took him to be; and also what a sinner she was, and what a vicious course of life she had lived; so that she might see that she stood in need of him, as the gift of God, and Saviour of men; and of the grace he had been speaking of, under the notion of living water: saying to her,

go, call thy husband, and come hither; go directly from hence to the city of Sychar, and call thy husband, and come back hither along with him again: this Christ said, not to have him come to teach and instruct him, and as if he would more readily and easily understand him, and that he might be with her, a partaker of the same grace; but to bring on some further conversation, by which she would understand that he knew her state and condition, and what a course of life she now lived, and so bring her under a conviction of her sin and danger, and need of him and his grace.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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, John 4:29.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 4:16. 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.