John 4:5
Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
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- Josh 24:32 : 32 The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph.
- Gen 33:19 : 19 Then he purchased the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent; he bought it from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money.
- Gen 48:22 : 22 As one who is above your brothers, I give to you the mountain slope, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”
- John 4:12 : 12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”
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- John 4:6-1611 verses86%
6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.
7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her,“Give me some water to drink.”
8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)
9 So the Samaritan woman said to him,“How can you– a Jew– ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?”(For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her,“If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you,‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said to him,“you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?
12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”
13 Jesus replied,“Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.
14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him,“Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16 He said to her,“Go call your husband and come back here.”
- John 4:3-42 verses83%
3 he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.
4 Conversation With a Samaritan Woman But he had to pass through Samaria.
- John 4:39-402 verses73%
39 The Samaritans Respond Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified,“He told me everything I ever did.”
40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,
- John 4:26-305 verses72%
26 Jesus said to her,“I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
27 The Disciples Return Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said,“What do you want?” or“Why are you speaking with her?”
28 Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,
29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”
30 So they left the town and began coming to him.
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11 The Grateful Leper Now on the way to Jerusalem, Jesus was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.
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52 He sent messengers on ahead of him. As they went along, they entered a Samaritan village to make things ready in advance for him,
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16 and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
- John 4:45-462 verses70%
45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast(for they themselves had gone to the feast).
46 Healing the Royal Official’s Son Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.
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1 Questions About Divorce Now when Jesus finished these sayings, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River.
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1 Joseph’s Tribal Lands The land allotted to Joseph’s descendants extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho to the east, through the desert and on up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.
- Gen 29:1-33 verses69%
1 The Marriages of Jacob So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people.
2 He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
3 When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.
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43 Onward to Galilee After the two days he departed from there to Galilee.
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18 After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near the city.
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20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”
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10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.
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54 Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.
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22 Further Testimony About Jesus by John the Baptist After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.
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54 Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.
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30 (Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)
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43 Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say,“Please give me a little water to drink from your jug.”
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45 Philip found Nathanael and told him,“We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also wrote about– Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
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13 While in Galilee, he moved from Nazareth to make his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
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5 Philip went down to the main city of Samaria and began proclaiming the Christ to them.
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12 When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,
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11 He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.
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1 Jesus and Zacchaeus Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it.
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1 Healing a Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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32 The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph.
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4 Joseph said to his brothers,“Come closer to me,” so they came near. Then he said,“I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
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40 Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.