The Lady At The Well

[dal11]

I had this thought pop in my head today and haven’t really thought it out, so some one might blow this out of the water easily, but here it goes anyway. When Jesus was at the well with the lady drawing water he said: you are right to say you have no husband, because you’ve had five husbands and the man at your house now is not your husband( might not be word for word, but it was from memory). Since a lot of protestants think you can divorce and remarry because of adultery. Wouldn’t Jesus have known this and the man at home would be her husband. Since she would have comitted adultery on the previous husband so the next person she married would be her actual husband. I’m not sure if I explained that right, but what do you think.

 

[carol_marie]

I assumed that when he said that the man at her house was not her husband it was because they weren’t married - only living together sort of thing?

 

[Della]

I had this thought pop in my head today and haven’t really thought it out, so some one might blow this out of the water easily, but here it goes anyway. When Jesus was at the well with the lady drawing water he said: you are right to say you have no husband, because you’ve had five husbands and the man at your house now is not your husband( might not be word for word, but it was from memory). Since a lot of protestants think you can divorce and remarry because of adultery. Wouldn’t Jesus have known this and the man at home would be her husband. Since she would have comitted adultery on the previous husband so the next person she married would be her actual husband. I’m not sure if I explained that right, but what do you think.

If I understand you correctly, I think you are saying that if the Protestant idea about divorce and remarriage were valid, Jesus would have called the man living at her house her husband. Yes? You may have something there. Although, she may never have gone through a formal marriage arrangement since her divorce or leaving her last husband, so the man probably wasn’t a new husband but merely a lover. In any case, Jesus certainly didn’t seem to approve, and she understood that her life had been a mess, so I wouldn’t think this good evidence for divorce and remarriage in the case of adultery.

 

[LilyM]

It would have been quite possible at the time that the woman did indeed marry legitimately five times, given the comparatively short life expectancies of those days, and then was not formally married to her last lover. Remember the story the Pharisees told about the woman married to SEVEN brothers, each of whom died. Clearly not unheard-of.