1 When therefore the Lord knew how that the Pharisees had heard 2 that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 3 (although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), he left 4 Judea, and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs pass through Samaria. Luke 3:19, 20 19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, 20 added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.[a] Mark 1:14 |Matt. 4:12 |Luke 4:14 | | 14 Now after that |12 Now when he heard |14 And Jesus John was delivered | that John was | returned in the up, Jesus came into | delivered up, he | power of the Spirit Galilee. | withdrew into | into Galilee. | Galilee. | [Footnote a: The place of John's imprisonment was Machærus, east of the Dead Sea. See Josephus. _War_, Ch. VII, vi. In _Antiquities_, Ch. XVIII, v, 2 Josephus gives the public and political reason for John's imprisonment because of Herod's fear of a revolution. He "feared lest the great influences John had over the people might put it into his power and inclination to raise a rebellion."] § 35. JESUS IN SAMARIA.[a] At Jacob's Well and in Sychar John 4:5-42 5 So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the 6 parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph: and Jacob's [1]well was there [_see Josh. 24:32_]. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat [2]thus by the [1]well. It was about 7 the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: 8 Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. For his disciples were 9 gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a Samaritan woman? ([3]For Jews have no dealings with 10 Samaritans.) Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee 11 living water. The woman saith unto him, [4]Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou 12 that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his 13 cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh 14 of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up 15 unto eternal life. The woman saith unto him, [4]Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.