“Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?”
Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks? — the woman appeals to Jacob as the patriarch of Samaritan religion and tradition. Her question contains ironic truth: Jesus is indeed greater than Jacob, though she asks it skeptically. The focus on Jacob's drinking from the well emphasizes the continuity of natural provision; Jesus offers something utterly different.
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