12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"


In Context

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. )

10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

11 "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?

12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"

13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

John 4:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children, and his cattle?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12Art 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?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:12Are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?