John 4:12
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.”
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- Isa 53:2-3 : 2 He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him. 3 He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.
- Matt 12:42 : 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 4:6 : 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 : 53 You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”
- Heb 3:3 : 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!
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- John 4:5-117 verses86%
5 Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
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.
7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her,“Give me some water to drink.”
8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)
9 So the Samaritan woman said to him,“How can you– a Jew– ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?”(For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her,“If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you,‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said to him,“you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?
- John 4:13-175 verses84%
13 Jesus replied,“Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.
14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him,“Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16 He said to her,“Go call your husband and come back here.”
17 The woman replied,“I have no husband.” Jesus said to her,“Right you are when you said,‘I have no husband,’
- John 4:26-283 verses72%
26 Jesus said to her,“I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
27 The Disciples Return Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said,“What do you want?” or“Why are you speaking with her?”
28 Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,
- John 7:37-382 verses71%
37 Teaching About the Spirit On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out,“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and
38 let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says,‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”
- Gen 26:18-203 verses70%
18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
19 When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,
20 the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying,“The water belongs to us!” So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.
- Gen 24:43-464 verses70%
43 Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say,“Please give me a little water to drink from your jug.”
44 Then she will reply to me,“Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too.” May that woman be the one whom the LORD has chosen for my master’s son.’
45 “Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her,‘Please give me a drink.’
46 She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said,‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.
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53 You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”
- Gen 24:17-204 verses69%
17 Abraham’s servant ran to meet her and said,“Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”
18 “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.
19 When she had done so, she said,“I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”
20 She quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels.
- John 4:19-202 verses69%
19 The woman said to him,“Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”
- John 2:6-72 verses69%
6 Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
7 Jesus told the servants,“Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top.
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32 That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug.“We’ve found water,” they reported.
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8 “We can’t,” they said,“until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water the sheep.”
- Gen 29:2-32 verses69%
2 He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
3 When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.
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3 But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”
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15 Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
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19 She answered,“Please give me a special present. Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water.” So he gave her both upper and lower springs.
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10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.
- Gen 24:13-142 verses68%
13 Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.
14 I will say to a young woman,‘Please lower your jar so I may drink.’ May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply,‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.”
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39 The Samaritans Respond Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified,“He told me everything I ever did.”
- Num 21:16-172 verses67%
16 And from there they traveled to Beer; that is the well where the LORD spoke to Moses,“Gather the people and I will give them water.”
17 Then Israel sang this song:“Spring up, O well, sing to it!
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30 He replied,“You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well.”
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19 He said to her,“Give me a little water to drink, because I’m thirsty.” She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.