John 4:5

New Century Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 33:19

He bought a part of the field where he had camped from the sons of Hamor father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silver.

Genesis 48:22

I have given you something that I did not give your brothers—the land of Shechem that I took from the Amorite people with my sword and my bow.”

1 Kings 13:32

Through him the Lord spoke against the altar at Bethel and against the places of worship in the towns of Samaria. What the Lord spoke through him will certainly come true.”

Luke 9:52

He sent some messengers ahead of him, who went into a town in Samaria to make everything ready for him.

John 4:12

Are you greater than Jacob, our father, who gave us this well and drank from it himself along with his sons and flocks?”

John 4:39

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because of what the woman said: “He told me everything I ever did.”

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 twelve o’clock noon.

John 4:8

(This happened while Jesus’ followers were in town buying some food.)

Joshua 24:32

When the Israelites left Egypt, they carried the bones of Joseph with them. They buried them at Shechem, in the land Jacob had bought for a hundred pieces of silver from the sons of Hamor (Hamor was the father of Shechem). This land now belonged to Joseph’s children.