Matthew Poole and continuators on John 4:12

12 Art thou greater then our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattel ?

She asks him, if he judged himself wiser than Iacob, whom she calleth their Father? It is often observed, that the Samaritans would ordinarily claim Kindred with the Iews, when the Iews were in prosperity; but in their adversity, constantly disowned any relation to them. There were some Iews (Ephraimites especially) mixt with a far greater number of Assyrians, which made up this Body of People called the Samaritans. Now saith the Woman, Iacob who was the Father of Ioseph, from whom we claim, was a wise Man, and he could find no better Water hereabouts for himself and family, than that of this Well; art thou wiser than he?