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


In Context

9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, |How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?| (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

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

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

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

13 Jesus answered her, |Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:12Are 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?"

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 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?