Verse 12

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?"

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 53:2-3 : 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no form or majesty to attract us to him, and no appearance that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
  • Matt 12:42 : 42 The Queen of the South will rise 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 look—something greater than Solomon is here.
  • John 4:6 : 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
  • John 8:53 : 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died too. Who do you claim to be?"
  • Heb 3:3 : 3 For Jesus has been found worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.