John 4:4

And it was so that he must nedes goo thorowe Samaria.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

And he must needs go through Samaria.

In Context

3he lefte Iewry and departed agayne into Galile.

5Then came he to a cyte of Samaria called Sichar besydes the possession that Iacob gave to his sonne Ioseph.

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Cross References

Luke 2:49And he sayde vnto the: how is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must goo aboute my fathers busines?

Luke 17:11And it chaunsed as he went to Ierusalem that he passed thorow Samaria and Galile.

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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