John 4:3
He left Judaea and returned to Galilee.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
In Context
2though Jesus Himself did not baptize them, but His disciples did--
4His road lay through Samaria,
Cross References
Mark 3:7Accordingly Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the Lake, and a vast crowd of people from Galilee followed Him;
John 2:11This, the first of His miracles, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and thus displayed His glorious power; and His disciples believed in Him.
John 3:32What He has seen and heard, to that He bears witness; but His testimony no one receives.
John 11:54Therefore Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews, but He left that neighbourhood and went into the district near the Desert, to a town called Ephraim, and remained there with the disciples.
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 →