John 4:18 · KJV
“For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.”
— John 4:18
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
John 4 — Context
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
19The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:10-11
And unto the married I command, {yet} not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from {her} husband:
Romans 7:3
So then if, while {her} husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Jeremiah 3:20
Surely {as} a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. {husband: Heb. friend}
Mark 10:12
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Genesis 34:31
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
Genesis 34:7-8
And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard {it}: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
Ruth 4:10
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye {are} witnesses this day.
Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou {art but} a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she {is} a man's wife. {a man's...: Heb. married to an husband}