When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran to meet him" (Genesis 29:12-13). ... In the Greek Bible's recasting of the well motif, the connection with the Hebrew Bible's motif is made explicit first through the fact that "Jacob's well was there" (John 4:6) and then through Jesus' request to the Samaritan woman that she "Give me [Jesus] a drink'" (John 4:7) which echoes Abraham's servant's request to Rebekah: "Please let me sip a little water from your jar'" (Genesis 24:17). ...

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