John 4:17 Douay-Rheims

The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, I have no husband:

John Chrysostom

A.D. 347–407 Patristic

(Hom. xxxii. 2) The woman then being urgent in asking for the promised water, Jesus saith unto her, Go call thy husband; to shew that he too ought to have a share in these things. But she was in a hurry to receive the gift, and wished to conceal her guilt, (for she still imagined she was speaking to a man:) The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Christ answers her with a seasonable reproof; exposing her as to former husbands, and as to her present one, whom she had concealed; Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband.

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A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:13-18

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