1. Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2. (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples),
3. he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.
4. And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.
5. Now he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.