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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 4:12 - 4:12
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Art thou greater, etc. - already perceiving in this Stranger a claim to some mysterious greatness.
our father Jacob - for when it went well with the Jews, they claimed kindred with them, as being descended from Joseph; but when misfortunes befell the Jews, they disowned all connection with them [Josephus, Antiquities, 9.14, 3].