John 4:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Are You greater than and superior to our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

Common English Bible

¹² You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave this well to us, and he drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Surely, you are not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and who drank from it, with his sons and his cattle?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

John 4:12 Cross References

Matthew 12:42

The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and indeed something greater than Solomon is here!

John 4:13

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

John 4:20

Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

John 4:5

So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

John 8:53

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets also died. Who do you claim to be?”

Hebrews 3:3

Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.