1. Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more followers than John was.
2. But Jesus' disciples were really the ones doing the baptizing, and not Jesus himself.
3. Jesus left Judea and started for Galilee again.
4. This time he had to go through Samaria,
5. and on his way he came to the town of Sychar. It was near the field that Jacob had long ago given to his son Joseph.
17-18. The woman answered, “I don't have a husband.”“That's right,” Jesus replied, “you're telling the truth. You don't have a husband. You have already been married five times, and the man you are now living with isn't your husband.”
43-44. Jesus had said, “Prophets are honoured everywhere, except in their own country.” Then two days later he left