John 4:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?'

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  • Isa 53:2-3 : 2 Yea, he cometh up as a tender plant before Him, And as a root out of a dry land, He hath no form, nor honour, when we observe him, Nor appearance, when we desire him. 3 He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.
  • Matt 12:42 : 42 `A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo, a greater than Solomon here!
  • John 4:6 : 6 and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;
  • John 8:53 : 53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom dost thou make thyself?'
  • Heb 3:3 : 3 for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,

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  • John 4:5-11
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    5He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son;

    6and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;

    7there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, `Give me to drink;'

    8for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;

    9the Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, `How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?' for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.

    10Jesus answered and said to her, `If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'

    11The woman saith to him, `Sir, thou hast not even a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; whence, then, hast thou the living water?

  • John 4:13-17
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    13Jesus answered and said to her, `Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again;

    14but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'

    15The woman saith unto him, `Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.'

    16Jesus saith to her, `Go, call thy husband, and come hither;'

    17the woman answered and said, `I have not a husband.' Jesus saith to her, `Well didst thou say -- A husband I have not;

  • John 4:26-28
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    26Jesus saith to her, `I am `he', who am speaking to thee.'

    27And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, `What seekest thou?' or `Why speakest thou with her?'

    28The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men,

  • John 7:37-38
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    37And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, `If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;

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  • Gen 26:18-20
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    18and Isaac turneth back, and diggeth the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines do stop after the death of Abraham, and he calleth to them names according to the names which his father called them.

    19And Isaac's servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water,

    20and shepherds of Gerar strive with shepherds of Isaac, saying, `The water `is' ours;' and he calleth the name of the well `Strife,' because they have striven habitually with him;

  • Gen 24:43-46
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    43(lo, I am standing by the fountain of water), then the virgin who is coming out to draw, and I have said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher,

    44and she hath said unto me, Both drink thou, and also for thy camels I draw -- she is the woman whom Jehovah hath decided for my lord's son.

    45`Before I finish speaking unto my heart, then lo, Rebekah is coming out, and her pitcher on her shoulder, and she goeth down to the fountain, and draweth; and I say unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee,

    46and she hasteth and letteth down her pitcher from off her and saith, Drink, and thy camels also I water; and I drink, and the camels also she hath watered.

  • John 8:53
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    53Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom dost thou make thyself?'

  • Gen 24:17-20
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    17And the servant runneth to meet her, and saith, `Let me swallow, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher;'

    18and she saith, `Drink, my lord;' and she hasteth, and letteth down her pitcher upon her hand, and giveth him drink.

    19And she finisheth giving him drink, and saith, `Also for thy camels I draw till they have finished drinking;'

    20and she hasteth, and emptieth her pitcher into the drinking-trough, and runneth again unto the well to draw, and draweth for all his camels.

  • John 4:19-20
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    19The woman saith to him, `Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet;

    20our fathers in this mountain did worship, and ye -- ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it behoveth to worship.'

  • John 2:6-7
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    6And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, holding each two or three measures.

    7Jesus saith to them, `Fill the water-jugs with water;' and they filled them -- unto the brim;

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    32And it cometh to pass during that day that Isaac's servants come and declare to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they have digged, and say to him, `We have found water;'

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    8And they say, `We are not able, till that all the droves be gathered together, and they have rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and we have watered the flock.'

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    2and he looketh, and lo, a well in the field, and lo, there three droves of a flock crouching by it, for from that well they water the droves, and the great stone `is' on the mouth of the well.

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  • Exod 17:3
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    3and the people thirst there for water, and the people murmur against Moses, and say, `Why `is' this? -- thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to put us to death, also our sons and our cattle, with thirst.'

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    15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

  • Josh 15:19
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    19And she saith, `Give to me a blessing; when the land of the south thou hast given me, then thou hast given to me springs of waters;' and he giveth to her the upper springs and the lower springs.

  • Gen 29:10
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    10and it cometh to pass when Jacob hath seen Rachel, daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the flock of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob cometh nigh and rolleth the stone from off the mouth of the well, and watereth the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

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    39And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, -- `He told me all things -- as many as I did.'

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    16And from thence `they journeyed' to Beer; it `is' the well `concerning' which Jehovah said to Moses, `Gather the people, and I give to them -- water.'

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    30And he saith, `For -- the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;'

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    19And he saith unto her, `Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water, for I am thirsty;' and she openeth the bottle of milk, and giveth him to drink, and covereth him.