John 4:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

Cross References

Genesis 33:19

And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.

Genesis 48:22

And I have given you more than your brothers, even Shechem as your heritage, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.

1 Kings 13:32

For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.

Luke 9:52

And he sent men before: and they came to a small town of Samaria to make ready for him.

John 4:12

Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?

John 4:39

Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did.

John 4:6

Now Jacob's fountain was there. Jesus, being tired after his journey, was resting by the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:8

For his disciples had gone to the town to get food.

Joshua 24:32

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.