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John 4:12

Israel

10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?

Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”

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

14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”
KJV
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
WEB
Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”
ASV
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
DARBY
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
BLB
Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank out of it himself, and his sons and his livestock?”
ÅB
Du er da vel ikke større enn vår far Jakob, som gav oss brønnen og selv drakk av den, han og hans sønner og hans fe?
OTB
Er du større enn vår far Jakob, som ga oss brønnen og drakk av den selv, sammen med sine sønner og buskap?»
B1930
Du er da vel ikke større enn vår far Jakob, som gav oss brønnen og selv drakk av den, han og hans sønner og hans fe?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • John 8:53

    Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”

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  • Matthew 12:42

    The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.

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  • Hebrews 3:3

    For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

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  • Isaiah 53:2–3

    He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

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  • John 4:6

    Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

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