This exposition may look extremely odd to the blind theologians of "letters" in that all the five husbands of the Samaritan woman, not stated anywhere else in the Bible by name, have been identified both by names and in nature. These five spiritual husbands are well-known to the disciples of SATGURU NANAK DEVJI, the second anointed "Christ" but the narrow mindedness of the people of "letters" hinders them from perceiving in this liberal field of spirit.

Thus, the popular interpretation of John 4 by the men of "letters" leads the people to the inference that the Samaritan woman was indeed leading a very immoral, sinful and disgraceful life, an interpretation by the "letters" which is just the opposite of that by the "spirit". In fact, by the letters, "His Treasures" always hang upside down and, therefore, such interpretations of the Parables by the "letters" are not rare. In general, the theologians know that the Gospel of John is highly spiritual and, therefore, it is not so easy to understand. In fact, John 4 and Matt.19 are the most difficult to understand Parables of all.

The five husbands of the Samaritan woman mentioned by John were not the physical ones with which the natural people of flesh, the hylics, are quite familiar with but they were rather the spiritual or the abstract ones that the people of both sexes are liable to be dominated by. Thus, in order to appreciate the beauty of "His Treasures" buried in this Parable of John's, let us first study the nature of these spiritual husbands whose number is limited to "five" only:-

Briefly, a religious person of high standing should have both body and heart circumcised. The body is circumcised of "sins" by obeying the moral laws of Moses and to this effect the "forerunner" John, the baptist of the priestly Levi stock came in the name of "Elijah". This involves mostly rituals, which are related to the seven types of "works". These are putting into practice the social, economical and political moral laws in the secular world and learning the social, economical and political moral laws by the "letters" from a moral teacher called a Rabbi or PANDIT, in the ecclesiastical world of temples. It is worth stating here the criteria of an ideal moral teacher, which is stressed by Jesus in Matt.13.52: He said to him, "Therefore every teacher of the (moral) law who has been instructed about the kingdom of heaven is like the (hereditary) owner of a house(temple), who brings out of his storeroom (of religious knowledge or gnosis) New Treasures('His Word', that is branded as the New Unshrunk Cloth untouched by human hands) as well as old(the written moral laws of Moses, Abraham, etc. that were passed from father to son in a hereditary manner and they were interpreted by the "letters")." Whilst the circumcision of heart involves the purification of the heart of the five specific spiritual temptations or diseases by worshipping God in Holy spirit. The five specific spiritual temptations of the heart are:-

1. LUST FOR SEX called KAAM in Panjabi that can tempt you to commit such immoral acts as fornication is the temptation in which the lust of "flesh" dominates. "Shame" or conscience being the foundation of religion is acquired by overpowering one's lust for sex through the determination of one's heart.

2. ANGER called KARODH in Panjabi hinders and impairs one's logical Reasoning capabilities and, therefore, it is not beneficial or helpful in the understanding of the Spiritual Principles of life i.e. "His Word" that a wise man led by "Holy ghost" may try to impart to you through logical Reasoning.

This is the dominating weakness of the "hylics", who are led by "ego" and, therefore, they are incapable of understanding the matters of "spirit". The simpletons being incapable of understanding the logic of Spiritual Principles, they normally become angry in order to cover up their ignorance when a sensible person may dare to preach them the abstract "Word of God" through heart-to-heart discussions. Such anger due to spiritual ignorance was displayed by the arrogant Peter in Matt.16.22 and 23: Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. "Perish the thought, Lord", he said, "This shall never happen to You". Jesus(knowing that as the result of Peter becoming "arrogant", anger has entered the otherwise pure of heart Peter) turned and said to Peter, "Out of My sight, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; you do not have in mind the (abstract) things of God(His Will), but the (concrete) things of men."

3. GREED called LOBH in Panjabi that can tempt you to usurp the rights of others is the dominating weakness of the clever people of "mind", the "psychics" or the men of evil spirit. Judas Iscariot in whom the material desires dominated was a typical disciple of Jesus who fell victim to this temptation of the heart.

4. WORLDLY ATTACHMENT, called MOH in Panjabi that can deter the holy wise pneumatics from serving God by becoming an Apostle or a Roving Preacher in the name of Jesus. This was also the third temptation of Satan to Jesus. In reply to this temptation, Christ Jesus advises His wise disciples: "You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve". This point has been also stressed by Jesus in the Parable of young rich man Matt.19.21: Jesus answered, "If you want to be Perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have Treasure in Heaven. Then come, follow me." The need for the renunciation of secular world in order to serve Him without any distraction is also stressed in Matt.6.24: "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon".

5. HAUGHTINESS, called HANKAAR in Panjabi that results from over confidence in ones own knowledge is the dominating weakness of the men of "letters" in whom their own wisdom is "he" rather than "she" to the Wisdom of God. This temptation of the heart is purely "abstract" in nature against the very first one, the lust for sex, which was purely "concrete or physical" in nature.

Here, it is worth making a distinction between "Saul", a man of "letters" and this highly knowledgeable Samaritan woman of "spirit". Saul was drunk with the old wine of the "letters" and did not desire the "New Wine" of Jesus whilst this woman being a person of "spirit" engaged Jesus into deep spiritual conversation.

The above mentioned five temptations of heart are overcome by giving oneself up to the 'Will of God' or gnostically speaking by entering the "Bridal Chamber". When His Will, the Foundation of Which is "treat others as you wished to be treated", dominates in a person's heart then these five temptations of heart are under the full control of the person and this could be analogised to a person, male or female, having all the five husbands also termed the "spiritual robbers", which are living with him but not dominating or husbanding him anymore.

Further, St. Luke has stressed the significance of the "FIVE" in Luke 12.52: "For from henceforth(i.e. in this Dark Age of "spirit" and not of the "works" anymore), there shall be five in one house(physical body) divided, three(of "id", called HAUMAE in Panjabi, which are 1.lust for sex, 2. anger and 3. haughtiness of the letters as the university professors display) against two(of the "mind", called MUNN in Panjabi, which are 1. greed and 2. worldly temptations) and two(clever "psychics" of evil spirit) against three(simple "hylics" of flesh)". And Luke 14.18-20: "And they all with one consent began to make excuses. The first(man of flesh or hylic) said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. And another(man of evil spirit or psychic) said, I have bought "five" yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them i.e. the psychics are always the victims of the five spiritual robbers and they are too busy enjoying the evil fruits of evil spirit to pay heed to the service of God): I pray thee have me excused. Another(wise pneumatic person too busy in his family love, "MOH", to serve God as a roving preacher) said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come."

Finally, it is worth stating here that the twelve close-circle disciples of Jesus that were His YEAST signify that His ideal disciples would be perfect in the seven moral rituals embodied in the seven-candled Menorah and they would also have their heart pure of the "FIVE" spiritual temptations. That is, the true disciples of Jesus would have both body of "sins" and heart of "blasphemies" circumcised.

Now, let us interpret the relevant section of the Parable John 4:-

He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back." "I have no husband," she replied. That is, the woman like Saul was so religious a person that she was leading a life of "celibacy" as to be not tempted by the weakness of flesh at all. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband." In this statement, Jesus clearly confirms the answer given by the woman to the effect that she has no physical husband.

"For you have had five husbands(these were 1. lust for sex, which she had subdued by choosing a life of celibacy devoted to the worship of God; 2. anger, which dominates the men of flesh or the hylics, she had overpowered it through holy spirit and she was not a fool but sensible enough to engage Jesus, a Person of Holy Spirit, into a deep religious discussion that even the disciples of Jesus were spell-bound not to interrupt; 3. greed she overpowered by leading a simple life; 4. worldly attachment she overpowered by leading a life of spinster; and 5. haughtiness of her religious knowledge was subdued by holy spirit through which she was understanding Gospel), and the man(pride of religious knowledge) you are now living with is not your husband(is not dominating you either). What you have just said is quite true." That is she had no moral or physical husband of flesh.

"Sir," the woman said, "I can see(perceive) that you are a Prophet." That is, the woman was so spiritually advanced as to tell Jesus that He seems to be a Prophet. "Our fathers(in flesh) worshipped(their tribal gods called 'ILLAH') on this mountain(by spirit), but you Jews(of letters) claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem(where no tribal gods were worshipped)." This reference is to the worship of the statues of dead gods and goddesses, which were used by the moral teachers as the visual aids in teaching the moral laws to the youngsters. This type of worship served its purpose when the moral teachers were men of spirit and their praises were with God and not with the men.

Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman a time(Dark Age of spirit) is coming when you will worship the Father(God) neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know(speaking in terms of the letters and not spirit): we worship what we do know(by the letters), for salvation is from the Jews(Seems to have been added on by the satanic people). Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the (Living)Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the (Living)Father seeks. God is Spirit(abstract), and His worshippers must worship in (Holy)spirit and in truth." The woman said, "I know that Messiah is coming(this declaration of the Samaritan woman reflects her deep understanding of the religious knowledge by Holy spirit that she and her people possessed). When He comes, He will explain everything to us." What a beautiful statement the woman made that reflected her deep religious knowledge and indirectly we can say that she was a highly religious person who was gifted with Holy spirit. She knew what Christ stands for. Then, Jesus declared, "I Who speak to you am He." That is, Jesus was so pleased with her deep religious knowledge in spirit as to give out His identity with pleasure, which He hid from the hylics and the psychics.

Just then His disciples returned and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "what do you want?" or "Why are You talking with her?" That is, Jesus and the Samaritan woman were locked in such a serious philosophical discussion that even His disciples dare not interrupt it. Then, leaving her water jar(for Jesus and His disciples to enjoy), the woman went back to the town and said to her people, "Come, see a Man Who told me everything I ever did(that is, all her religious achievements). Could this be the Christ?" The pneumatics do not impose their own findings upon the others but let them find it out by themselves through spirit.

They came out of the town and made their way towards Him. This gesture of welcoming Jesus amply reflects that the people of this town were very sensible people and did not wait for Jesus, the Fountain of Living Water, to go to them but rather they went out towards Him to greet and to welcome Him into their humble village. In other towns, people did not come out to greet Jesus and if they did so, it was mostly to get their sick people healed. Whilst the people of Sychar did not come out to greet Jesus for the sick but to honour a highly knowledgeable Person(the anointed High Priest of God), a Prophet of this Dark Age in the name of "Jesus".

Meanwhile, His disciples urged Him, "Rabbi, eat something." But He said to them, "I have (spiritual)food to eat that you know nothing about." Then His disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought Him food ?" "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the Will of Him Who sent Me and to finish His work. Do you not say, "Four months more and the harvest?" I tell you, open your (spiritual third)eyes and look at the fields(hearts of the people); for they are "white" already to harvest." The last words, "for they are "white" already to harvest" beautifully reflect the character and religious achievements of the people of Sychar. Now, the physical crops when they are ready for harvesting take on a golden yellow colour. Therefore, the crop Jesus is talking about here is not the physical one but the spiritual human crop of hearts and the "white" colour signifies that the people of Sychar were religiously pure and clean at heart and not the dirty-hearted sinners. To my best knowledge of the N.T., Jesus never spoke so well of people as that of these in the whole of His missionary work.

"Even now the Reaper(Jesus, the Master Fisherman) draws His Wages(of salvaging the people), even now He harvests the crop for eternal Life, so that the Sower(God) and the Reaper may be glad together. Thus, the saying 'one sows and another reaps' is true." This crop is the spiritual one of the people, in which the people prepare themselves to be harvested by the roving preachers, the Fishers of men; whilst in the normal physical crop, the sower and the reaper is the same person. Also, Jesus, the Reaper cannot enter into your heart of His own Will but you have to let Him in. "I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others(the moral teachers) have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labour." Thus said St.Thomas in Logo 22.16: "Let there be among you a man of understanding(a pneumatic) when the fruit ripened(people become white-hearted), he came quickly with His Sickle(of Gospel, the double-edged sword) in his hand, he reaped it."

This and the next Parable Matt.19. are the most difficult Parables to understand and they are best learnt through a lively heart-to-heart discussion.