John 4:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?”

Cross References

Matthew 12:42

At the judgment the queen of the south will arise with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and there is something greater than Solomon here. The Return of the Unclean Spirit.

John 4:13

Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again;

John 4:20

Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain; but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

John 4:5

So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon.

John 8:53

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? Or the prophets, who died? Who do you make yourself out to be?”

Hebrews 3:3

But he is worthy of more “glory” than Moses, as the founder of a house has more “honor” than the house itself.