John 4:4

and it was necessary [for] Him to go through Samaria.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And he must needs go through Samaria.

In Context

3He left Judea and went away again to Galilee,

5He comes, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

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Cross References

Luke 2:49And He said to them, “Why [is it] that you were seeking Me? Did you not know that it is necessary for Me to be in the things of My Father?”

Luke 17:11And it came to pass, in His going on to Jerusalem, that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee,

Matthew Henry on John 4:2-4

Christ's Journey into Galilee. 1 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, 2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) 3 He left Judæa, and departed again into Galilee. We read of Christ's coming into Judea ( ch. iii. 22 ), after he had kept the feast at Jerusalem; and now he left Judea four months before harvest, as is said here ( v. 35 ); so that it is computed that he staid in Judea about six months, to build upon the foundation… Read the whole commentary →

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