John 4:1-6

1Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—

2although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.

3So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4Now he had to go through Samaria.

5So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.