John 4:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

Our father Jacob — So they fancied he was; whereas they were, in truth, a mixture of many nations, placed there by the king of Assyria, in the room of the Israelites whom he had carried away captive, 2 Kings 17:24. Who gave us the well — In Joseph their supposed forefather: and drank thereof — So even he had no better water than this.

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?