Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Art thou (Mh su ei). Expecting a negative answer.
Greater than our father Jacob (meizwn ei tou patrov hmwn Iakwb). Ablative case patrov after the comparative adjective meizwn (positive megav). The Samaritans claimed descent from Jacob through Joseph (tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh).
Cattle (qremmata). Old word from trefw, to nourish, nursling, child, flock, cattle. Only here in N.T.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 4:12:
John 4:6
Revelation 7:17
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