12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
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Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. …
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-26)We have here an account of the good Christ did in Samaria, when he passed through that country in his way to Galilee. The Samaritans, both in blood and religion , were mongrel Jews , the posterity of those colonies which the king of Assyria planted there after the captivity of the ten tribes, with whom the poor of the land that were left behind, and many other Jews afterwards, incorporated themsel…
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