1. When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus makes and baptises more disciples than John
2. (however, Jesus himself did not baptise, but his disciples),
3. he left Judaea and went away again unto Galilee.
4. And he must needs pass through Samaria.
5. He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6. Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.