John 4:5

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

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

Cross References

Joshua 24:32

When the Israelites left Egypt, they carried the bones from the body of Joseph with them. They buried the bones of Joseph at Shechem 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.

Genesis 33:19

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

Genesis 48:22

I have given you one portion more than I gave to your brothers. I gave you the land that I won from the Amorites. I used my sword and bow to take that land.”

John 4:12

Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob? He is the one who gave us this well. He drank from it himself, and his sons and all his animals drank from it too.”

1 Kings 13:32

The Lord used him to speak against the altar at Bethel and against the high places in the other towns in Samaria. And what he said will certainly happen.”

Luke 9:52

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

John 4:6

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

John 4:8

This happened while his followers were in town buying some food.

John 4:39

Many of the Samaritan people in that town believed in Jesus. They believed because of what the woman had told them about him. She had told them, “He told me everything I have ever done.”