1. When therefore the Lord knew how that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2. (although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),
3. he left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
4. And he must needs pass through Samaria.
5. So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph: