John 4:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And in doing so, He arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the tract of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

Common English Bible

⁵ He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, which was near the land Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Therefore, he went into a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the estate which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

John 4:5 Cross References

Genesis 33:19

And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.

Genesis 48:22

Moreover I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope which I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”

1 Kings 13:32

For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.”

Luke 9:52

And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him;

John 4:12

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?”

John 4:39

Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”

John 4:6

Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:8

For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

Joshua 24:32

The bones of Joseph which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt were buried at Shechem, in the portion of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money; it became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.