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He left Judea and returned again to Galilee. Now [a]He had to go through [b]Samaria. So He arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the tract of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

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Footnotes

  1. John 4:4 Jesus went through Samaria to show that He is the Savior of all people.
  2. John 4:4 Samaria was centrally located between Judea (south) and Galilee (north). The Jews despised Samaritans because they were Jews who had intermarried with non-Jews and followed a heretical religion. Most Jews traveled out of their way to avoid Samaria.

So he left Judea(A) and went back once more to Galilee.

Now he had to go through Samaria.(B) So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.(C)

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