John 4:12

You are not greater, are you, than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his cattle?”

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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 do not have a bucket and the well is deep. Where then do you have the living water?

13Jesus replied and said to her, “Everyone who drinks from this water will be thirsty again,

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Cross References

Isaiah 53:2For he grew up before Yahweh like a sapling, and like a sprout out of parched earth; 1 he had no remarkable appearance or splendor; when we saw him, there was no beauty to attract us. 1

John 4:6The well of Jacob was there. Jesus was tired from his journey and sat by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Hebrews 3:3For Jesus has been considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, because the one who builds a house has more honor than the house itself.

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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