12 Art 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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12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well(A) and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

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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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Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses,(A) just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

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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.

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Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

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42 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.

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42 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came(A) from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, and now something greater than Solomon is here.

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53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?

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53 Are you greater than our father Abraham?(A) He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?”

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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.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

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He grew up before him like a tender shoot,(A)
    and like a root(B) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance(C) that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering,(D) and familiar with pain.(E)
Like one from whom people hide(F) their faces
    he was despised,(G) and we held him in low esteem.

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