1 Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more followers than John was.
2 But Jesus' disciples were really the ones doing the baptizing, and not Jesus himself.
3 Jesus left Judea and started for Galilee again.
4 This time he had to go through Samaria,
5 and on his way he came to the town of Sychar. It was near the field that Jacob had long ago given to his son Joseph.