The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
We have here an account of the good Christ did in Samaria, when he passed through that country in his way to Galilee. The Samaritans, both in blood and religion, were mongrel Jews, the posterity of…
Cambridge Bible
hast well said i.e. saidst rightly. Comp. Joh 8:48; Mat 15:7; Luk 20:39. There is perhaps a touch of irony in the -well."