John 4:5 “So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground…”

John 4:5

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

World English Bible

So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

American Standard Version

So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

Geneva Bible 1599

Then came hee to a citie of Samaria called Sychar, neere vnto the possession that Iacob gaue to his sonne Ioseph.

Darby Translation

He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Young's Literal Translation

He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son;

Bible in Basic English

So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

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Cross references

“the parcel”

Joshua 24:32 Genesis 33:19 Genesis 48:22

Joshua 24:32 · BSB

And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So…

Genesis 33:19 · BSB

And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.

Genesis 48:22 · BSB

And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

Also

John 4:12

John 4:12 · BSB

Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Now He had to pass through Samaria.

6Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Read John 4