Christ Looks into the Inner Life
John 4:16-18
Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come here.…


The eye of Jesus, which from the throne saw a sinful and saddened world; which saw Nathanael under the fig tree and Zacchaeus up in the sycamore tree; the eye which from the hill-top gazed on doomed Jerusalem, and which now follows both saint and sinner through all their ways; that bright, beautiful, expressive, sleepless, all-seeing eye pierced the veil of deceit which this sinner thought impenetrable, discerned her ways, read her thoughts, and dissected all her motives with more than microscopic distinctness. Then, with the master skill of more than a prophet, Jesus exposed her whole wanton career as by a lightning flash; and fastening upon her existing and current offence "as the crown and consummation of all her sins," He seized her conscience.

(J. H. Hitchens, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

WEB: Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."




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