Not gatorade, it's eternal made! Pt. 4

16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

17 “I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

I find these verses to be a eye-opening more than anything to the fact that Jesus knows us. He knows everything about us. Everything! Jesus tells the woman, who we know nothing about to get her husband. She admits the truth, but its only half the truth. We know that Jesus knows our hearts, but this woman wasn't in the know. She was trying to slide by and tell him only a part of her story. Jesus revealed who he was and his power by calling her out, yet doing it in a gentle manner. She knew she was busted, but she wasn't being condemned. Jesus makes no remarks about her sad situation, but verifies for her that her situation is not a healthy one. A fact that she already knows since she is fetching water at the hottest part of the day.

The woman having fives husbands is extreme for our modern standards, but back then it was unheard of. The only way a woman was to remarry was if the husband left her or the husband died. I have a feeling that the woman didn't have five husbands who died. She was also with a man who was not caring for her. She was used for sex. There was no part of her relationship that edified her standing in her community. If she was seen with the man and was not married or if he was a male from her family, she was seen as a prostitute.

Whether she was a prostitute or not, notice that Jesus does not condemn or make her lesser than the person she is. Jesus knows that even with her sin, he can still use her to glorify his name and spread the gospel.