15. Yet she probably still understands of Him merely natural water, “Adhuc carnalis est mulier” (Mald.): and anticipates only relief from having come to Jacob’s well in future. 16. Dicit ei Iesus: Vade, voca 16. Jesus saith to her: Go, virum tuum, et veni huc. call thy husband, and come hither. 16. Christ, of course, knew she had no husband; but He knew also what answer she would give, and He wished to get a natural opportunity of disclosing to her the secrets of her wicked life, that He might manifest His supernatural knowledge. 17. Respondit mulier, et 17. The woman answered, and dixit: Non habeo virum. Dicit said: I have no husband. Jesus ei Iesus: Bene dixisti, quia said to her: Thou hast said non habeo virum: well, I have no husband: 18. Quinque enim viros 18. For thou hast had five habuisti: et nunc quem habes, husbands: and he whom thou now non est tuus vir: hoc vere hast, is not thy husband. This dixisti. thou hast said truly. 17, 18. *Thou hast well said, I have no husband*, or rather, _husband_ I have not, with an emphasis on husband, which is marked in the Greek by its position in the sentence, as reproduced by Christ. *Thou hast had five husbands.* Though St. Chrys. and Mald. think that there is question, not of husbands, but of paramours, the common opinion, and certainly the obvious one, is that husbands are spoken of. It is not necessary to suppose that the husbands made room for one another by death, for she may have been divorced by several of them. See Deut. xxiv. 1, 2; Matt. xix. 3. 19. Dicit ei mulier: Domine, 19. The woman saith to him: video quia propheta es tu. Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 19. *A prophet*; _i.e._, here, as elsewhere frequently, one who has supernatural knowledge, who knows things which are naturally hidden from him. In these words the poor woman confesses her own guilt and the exalted character of Christ, whom, however, she does not yet recognise as “_The_ Prophet,” the Messias, but only as a prophet. 20. Patres nostri in monte hoc 20. Our fathers adored on this adoraverunt, et vos dicitis, mountain, and you say that at quia Ierosolymis est locus ubi Jerusalem is the place where adorare oportet. men must adore. 20. Not so much for the purpose of turning the conversation from the unpleasant subject of her own character,(41) as in order to have the opinion of a prophet upon an important question, she adds: *Our fathers*, &c.