John 4:16

THE MESSAGE

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Go call your husband,”

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.

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

Contextual Overview

⁴To get there, he had to pass through Samaria. He came into Sychar, a Samaritan village that bordered the field Jacob had given his son Joseph. Jacob's well was still there. Jesus, worn out by the trip, sat down at the well. It was noon. ⁷A woman, a Samaritan, came to draw water. Jesus said, "Would you give me a drink of water?" (His disciples had gone to the village to buy food for lunch.) ⁹ The Samaritan woman, taken aback, asked, "How come you, a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?" (Jews in those days wouldn't be caught dead talking to Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered, "If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water." ¹¹The woman said, "Sir, you don't even have a bucket to draw with, and this well is deep. So how are you going to get this ‘living water'? Are you a better man than our ancestor Jacob, who dug this well and drank from it, he and his sons and livestock, and passed it down to us?" ¹³Jesus said, "Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again and again. Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst—not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life." ¹⁵ The woman said, "Sir, give me this water so I won't ever get thirsty, won't ever have to come back to this well again!" ¹⁶ He said, "Go call your husband and then come back." ¹⁷"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." ¹⁹"Oh, so you're a prophet! Well, tell me this: Our ancestors worshiped God at this mountain, but you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place for worship, right?"

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
When they heard the sound of God strolling in the garden in the evening breeze, the Man and his Wife hid in the trees of the garden, hid from God.

Exodus 20:18
All the people, experiencing the thunder and lightning, the trumpet blast and the smoking mountain, were afraid—they pulled back and stood at a distance. They said to Moses, "You speak to us and we'll listen, but don't have God speak to us or we'll die."

2 Kings 24:20
The source of all this doom to Jerusalem and Judah was God 's anger— God turned his back on them as an act of judgment. And then Zedekiah revolted against the king of Babylon.

Job 1:12
God replied, "We'll see. Go ahead—do what you want with all that is his. Just don't hurt him." Then Satan left the presence of God .

Job 2:7
Satan left God and struck Job with terrible sores. Job was ulcers and scabs from head to foot. They itched and oozed so badly that he took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself, then went and sat on a trash heap, among the ashes.

Psalms 5:11
But you'll welcome us with open arms when we run for cover to you. Let the party last all night! Stand guard over our celebration. You are famous, God , for welcoming God-seekers, for decking us out in delight.

Jeremiah 23:39
"Are you paying attention? You'd better, because I'm about to take you in hand and throw you to the ground, you and this entire city that I gave to your ancestors. I've had it with the lot of you. You're never going to live this down. You're going down in history as a disgrace."

Jeremiah 52:3
The source of all this doom to Jerusalem and Judah was God 's anger. God turned his back on them as an act of judgment. Zedekiah revolted against the king of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar set out for Jerusalem with a full army. He set up camp and sealed off the city by building siege mounds around it. He arrived on the ninth year and tenth month of Zedekiah's reign. The city was under siege for nineteen months (until the eleventh year of Zedekiah).

Luke 13:26
"You'll protest, ‘But we've known you all our lives!' only to be interrupted with his abrupt, ‘Your kind of knowing can hardly be called knowing. You don't know the first thing about me.'

John 1:3
Everything was created through him; nothing—not one thing!— came into being without him. What came into existence was Life, and the Life was Light to live by. The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness; the darkness couldn't put it out.

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.