Women of the Bible New Testament by Rose Publishing

Author:Rose Publishing
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781496480606
Publisher: Rose Publishing
Published: 2022-06-30T22:01:40+00:00

The Context of Ancient Culture (vv. 16–17)

The next few verses are often misunderstood, because too often we don’t read them according to ancient culture. When Jesus told the woman to get her husband, she honestly replied that she had no husband. Jesus pressed into what had to be a difficult subject for her. He revealed that she had been married five times and now lived with someone who wasn’t her husband. In a modern context, this sounds like she was a flighty gold digger with a habit of divorcing—and now she was living with someone she hadn’t married. But divorce was rare at the time, and people certainly didn’t divorce casually.

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