John 4:12
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
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.
Compare
- 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
Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
Read in contextMatthew 12:42
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Read in contextHebrews 3:3
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
Read in contextIsaiah 53:2–3
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Read in contextJohn 4:6
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.
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