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You don't claim to be greater than Jacob, do you?" </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/john/4-12.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/john/4-12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/john/4-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/john/1.htm">John</a> > <a href="/gntd/john/4.htm">Chapter 4</a> > Verse 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/4-11.htm" title="John 4:11">◄</a> John 4:12 <a href="../john/4-13.htm" title="John 4:13">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/john/4.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/john/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />It was our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well; he and his children and his flocks all drank from it. You don't claim to be greater than Jacob, do you?" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/john/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/john/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Our ancestor Jacob dug this well for us, and his family and animals got water from it. Are you greater than Jacob?" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/john/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/john/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof, himself and his children and his cattle?<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof, himself and his children and his cattle?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/8-53.htm">John 8:53</a> Art thou greater than our father Abraham who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/53-2.htm">Isaiah 53:2,3</a> And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/12-42.htm">Matthew 12:42</a> The queen of the south shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater than Solomon here.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/3-3.htm">Hebrews 3:3</a> For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath built the house hath greater honour than the house.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/john/4.htm">Jesus and the Samaritan Woman</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou living water? <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl">Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof, himself and his children and his cattle?</span> <span class="reftext">13</span>Jesus answered and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him shall not thirst for ever.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/4-5.htm">John 4:5</a></span><br />He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/4-6.htm">John 4:6</a></span><br />Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/4-13.htm">John 4:13</a></span><br />Jesus answered and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him shall not thirst for ever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/4-20.htm">John 4:20</a></span><br />Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/8-53.htm">John 8:53</a></span><br />Art thou greater than our father Abraham who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/john/2-15.htm">Cattle</a> <a href="/john/1-13.htm">Children</a> <a href="/john/2-10.htm">Drank</a> <a href="/john/4-10.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/luke/2-8.htm">Flocks</a> <a href="/luke/3-9.htm">Forefather</a> <a href="/john/4-11.htm">Fountain</a> <a href="/john/3-31.htm">Greater</a> <a href="/zephaniah/2-14.htm">Herds</a> <a href="/john/4-6.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/zechariah/2-4.htm">Livestock</a> <a href="/john/3-8.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/john/4-11.htm">Water</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_corinthians/9-7.htm">Cattle</a> <a href="/john/8-39.htm">Children</a> <a href="/acts/9-9.htm">Drank</a> <a href="/john/4-15.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/genesis/4-2.htm">Flocks</a> <a href="/john/8-53.htm">Forefather</a> <a href="/john/4-14.htm">Fountain</a> <a href="/john/5-18.htm">Greater</a> <a href="/genesis/13-5.htm">Herds</a> <a href="/acts/3-13.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/genesis/1-24.htm">Livestock</a> <a href="/john/6-50.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/john/4-13.htm">Water</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/john/4-12.htm">John 4:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/john/4-12.htm">John 4:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/john/4-12.htm">John 4:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/john/4-12.htm">John 4:12 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/john/4-12.htm">John 4:12 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/john/4-12.htm">John 4:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/john/4-12.htm">John 4:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/john/4-12.htm">John 4:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/john/4-12.htm">John 4:12 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: also and Are as cattle did drank father flocks from gave greater herds himself his it Jacob not of our sons than the us well who you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/4-12.htm">NT Gospels: John 4:12 Are you greater than our father Jacob (Jhn Jo Jn) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/4-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 4:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 4:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/4-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 4:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 4:13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>