1. Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2. (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, just his disciples),
3. he left Judea and returned to Galilee.
4. He had to pass through Samaria.
5. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.