John 4:12

New English Translation

Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”

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 hear the wisdom of Solomon – and now, something greater than Solomon is here!

John 4:13

Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.

John 4:20

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

John 4:5

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

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

John 8:53

You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”

Hebrews 3:3

For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!