"I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;

A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.

This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.

A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.

"for you have had five husbands, and the man you have at present is not your husband. You have spoken the truth in saying that."

and if a woman puts away her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."

"How can this be," Mary replied, "seeing that I have no husband?"

Every man who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and he who marries her when so divorced from her husband commits adultery.

"Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back."

"How was it," replied Peter, "that you two agreed to try an experiment upon the Spirit of the Lord? The men who have buried your husband are already at the door, and they will carry you out."

Instantly she fell down dead at his feet, and the young men came in and found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her by her husband's side.