Art thou (Μη συ ε). Expecting a negative answer.

Greater than our father Jacob (μειζων ε του πατρος ημων Ι…

Art thou greater? Are you wiser, or better able to find water, than Jacob was? It seems that she supposed he meant he could direct her to …

Are you greater . . .?—Again, the pronoun is the emphatic word: “You surely are not greater.” Their impl…

The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou gre…

St. John Chrysostom: So that this conversation might not appear to violate His own command against talking to the Samaritans, …

The woman’s reference to “our father Jacob” was perhaps designed to bolster the importance of the Samaritans in the eyes of a Jewish rabbi. She was…

Art thou greater than our father Jacob? She proceeds to charge him with arrogance for exalting himself above the holy patriarch Jacob.…

Are you greater than our father Jacob
A person of greater worth and character than he, who was content to drink of t…

There was great hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews. Christ's road from Judea to Galilee lay through Samaria. We should not go into places o…

1. At Jesus answered and said to her, the Evangelist gives us Christ’s spiritual teaching.

   First, he gives the teaching itse…