1. Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was making more disciples and baptizing more than John (
2. although Jesus’ disciples were baptizing, not Jesus himself).
3. Therefore, he left Judea and went back to Galilee.
4. Jesus had to go through Samaria.
5. He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, which was near the land Jacob had given to his son Joseph.