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Scene 04 · A true word
Everything You Ever Did
John 4:16–20 NKJV
The text
16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.” 19The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
Context
Jesus does not expose her to shame her. He names the truth she has been managing, then stays. Five husbands, and the present man is not her husband: whether through death, divorce, or abandonment, her life has been a sequence of wells that did not hold. She calls Him a prophet — and then raises the oldest religious argument between their peoples, perhaps to change the subject, perhaps because a prophet is exactly whom you ask about worship.
Questions
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After He names her history, what does she conclude?
Question 3
Where did “our fathers” worship, and where did the Jews insist one ought to worship?
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