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he left Judea and returned to Galilee.

The Samaritan Woman. He had to[a] pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar,[b] near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:4 He had to: a theological necessity; geographically, Jews often bypassed Samaria by taking a route across the Jordan.
  2. 4:5 Sychar: Jerome identifies this with Shechem, a reading found in Syriac manuscripts.

So he left Judea(A) and went back once more to Galilee.

Now he had to go through Samaria.(B) So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.(C)

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