1. Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptising more disciples than John –
2. although in fact it was not Jesus who baptised, but his disciples.
3. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
4. Now he had to go through Samaria.
5. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.