John 4:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

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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  • Isa 53:2-3 : 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground: he has no form or beauty; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
  • Matt 12:42 : 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.
  • John 4:6 : 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
  • John 8:53 : 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead: whom do you make yourself out to be?
  • Heb 3:3 : 3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who has built the house has more honor than the house.

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    5Then he came to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

    6Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

    7A woman of Samaria came to draw water: Jesus said to her, Give me to drink.

    8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

    9Then the woman of Samaria said to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

    10Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.

    11The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: where then do you get that living water?

  • John 4:13-17
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    13Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again:

    14but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

    15The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.

    16Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come here.

    17The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have well said, I have no husband:

  • John 4:26-28
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    26Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am he.

    27At this point his disciples came, and marveled that he talked with a woman; yet no one said, What do you seek? or, Why are you talking with her?

    28The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men,

  • John 7:37-38
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    37On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

    38He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

  • Gen 26:18-20
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    18And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

    19And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

    20And the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they quarreled with him.

  • Gen 24:43-46
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    43behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass that when the virgin comes out to draw water, and I say to her, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,"

    44and she says to me, "Drink, and I will draw for your camels also," let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master's son.'

    45But before I had finished speaking in my heart, there was Rebekah, coming out with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'

    46And she made haste and let her pitcher down from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will give your camels a drink also.' So I drank, and she gave the camels a drink also.

  • John 8:53
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    53Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead: whom do you make yourself out to be?

  • Gen 24:17-20
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    17And the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please let me drink a little water from your pitcher."

    18And she said, "Drink, my lord." Then she quickly let her pitcher down to her hand and gave him a drink.

    19And when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking."

    20Then she quickly emptied her pitcher into the trough, ran back to the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

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    19The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

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  • John 2:6-7
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    6Now there were set there six stone waterpots, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons each.

    7Jesus said to them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.

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    32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, We have found water.

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    8And they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.

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    2And he looked and saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying by it; for they watered the flocks from that well, and a large stone was on the well's mouth.

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    3And the people were thirsty there for water; and the people grumbled against Moses, and said, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

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    15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

  • Josh 15:19
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    19She answered, Give me a blessing; since you have given me land in the south, give me also springs of water. So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

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    10And when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

  • Gen 24:13-14
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    13Behold, I stand here by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water.

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  • John 4:39
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    39And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, He told me all that I ever did.

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    16And from there they went to Beer: that is the well of which the LORD spoke to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

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    30And he said, For these seven ewe lambs you shall take from my hand, that they may be a witness that I have dug this well.

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    19And he said to her, Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. So she opened a jug of milk and gave him a drink, and covered him.