"Come and See": A Web Commentary on the Gospel of John: Section 4 Jesus in Samaria: the Living Water (Jn 4.1-42)

Section 4.1 Background (Jn 4.1-6)

4¹Then as the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus was making more disciples and baptising people more than John -- ²although Jesus himself did not baptise but his disciples did -- ³he left Judaea and went again into Galilee. ⁴He had to pass through Samaria. ⁵Accordingly he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the place that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; ⁶Jacob's spring¹ was there. So then Jesus, tired from the journey, sat down at the well; it was about mid-day².

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