John 4:5

Easy To Read Version

In Samaria Jesus came to the town called Sychar. This town is near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Cross References

Genesis 33:19

Jacob bought the field where he camped from the family of Hamor, father of Shechem. Jacob paid 100 pieces of silver.

Genesis 48:22

I have given you something that I did not give your brothers. I give you the mountain that I won from the Amorite people. I used my sword and bow to fight for that mountain. And I won.”

1 Kings 13:32

The things which the Lord spoke through him will certainly come true. The Lord used him to speak against the altar at Bethel and against the high places [172] in the other towns in Samaria.”

Luke 9:52

Jesus sent some men ahead of him. The men went into a town in Samaria to make everything ready for Jesus.

John 4:12

Are you greater than Jacob {\cf2\super [62]} our father {\cf2\super [63]} ? Jacob is the one that gave us this well. He drank from it himself. Also, his sons and all his animals drank water from this well.”

John 4:39

Many of the Samaritan {\cf2\super [68]} people in that town believed in Jesus. They believed because of what the woman had told them about Jesus. She had told them, “He (Jesus) told me everything I have ever done.”

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus was tired from his long trip. So Jesus sat down beside the well. It was about noon.

John 4:8

(This happened while Jesus’ followers went to town to buy some food.)

Joshua 24:32

When the people of Israel left Egypt, they carried the bones from the body of Joseph with them. So the people buried the bones of Joseph at Shechem. They buried the bones on the land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of the man named Shechem. Jacob had bought that land for 100 pieces of pure silver. This land belonged to Joseph’s children.