John 4:12

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

In Context

11The woman said to him: Sir, you have no vessel with which you can draw, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?

13Jesus answered and said to her: Whoever drinks of this water, will thirst again;

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Cross References

John 4:6And Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, therefore, wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Hebrews 3:3For this man is counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has builded the house, has more honor than the house.

Matthew Henry on John 4:5-27

Christ at the Well of Samaria. 4 And he must needs go through Samaria. 5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) 9 Then saith the woman of Samaria… Read the whole commentary →

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