Art thou greater than our Father Jacob,— "Are you a person of greater power, or more in favour with God, than our common father Jacob, that you can procure water for yourself by supernatural means?—He was obliged to dig this well for the supply of himself and his family; can you create water?"—The mention of Jacob as a progenitor was highly proper in an address to a Jew; who might be supposed to reverence that patriarch in the highest manner, as well as the Samaritans, and could never be suspected guilty of the least disrespect to so venerable a na
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John 4:12
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?