John 4:4

George Lamsa Translation

He had to go through Samaritan territory.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He had to travel through Samaria;

King James Version (1611)
And hee must needs goe thorow Samaria.

King James Version
And he must needs go through Samaria.

English Standard Version
And he had to pass through Samaria.

New American Standard Bible
And He had to pass through Samaria.

New Century Version
But on the way he had to go through the country of Samaria.

Amplified Bible
Now He had to go through Samaria.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And He had to pass through Samaria.

Legacy Standard Bible
And He had to pass through Samaria.

Berean Standard Bible
Now He had to pass through Samaria.

Contemporary English Version
This time he had to go through Samaria,

Complete Jewish Bible
This meant that he had to pass through Shomron.

Darby Translation
And he must needs pass through Samaria.

Easy-to-Read Version
On the way to Galilee, he had to go through the country of Samaria.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he must needes goe through Samaria.

Good News Translation
on his way there he had to go through Samaria.

Lexham English Bible
And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

Literal Translation
And it was needful for Him to pass through Samaria.

American Standard Version
And he must needs pass through Samaria.

Bible in Basic English
And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

Hebrew Names Version
He needed to pass through Shomron.

International Standard Version
Now it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

Etheridge Translation
AND he needed that in going he should pass through among the Shomroyee;

Murdock Translation
And in going, he had occasion to pass through the midst of the Samaritans.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For [it was so that] he must needes go through Samaria.

English Revised Version
And he must needs pass through Samaria.

World English Bible
He needed to pass through Samaria.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he must needs go thro' Samaria. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria,

Weymouth's New Testament
His road lay through Samaria,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And it bihofte hym to passe bi Samarie.

Update Bible Version
And he must surely pass through Samaria.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he must needs go through Samaria.

New English Translation
But he had to pass through Samaria.

New King James Version
But He needed to go through Samaria.

New Living Translation
He had to go through Samaria on the way.

New Life Bible
He had to go through the country of Samaria.

New Revised Standard
But he had to go through Samaria.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now he must needs pass through Samaria.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.

Revised Standard Version
He had to pass through Samar'ia.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And it was so that he must nedes goo thorowe Samaria.

Young's Literal Translation
and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But he must nedes go thorow Samaria.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but being obliged to pass through Samaria,

THE MESSAGE
To get there, he had to pass through Samaria. He came into Sychar, a Samaritan village that bordered the field Jacob had given his son Joseph. Jacob's well was still there. Jesus, worn out by the trip, sat down at the well. It was noon.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus was riding through Samaria and

Contextual Overview

⁴ He had to go through Samaritan territory. ⁵ Then he came to a Samaritan city, called Sychar, near the field which Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶ Now Jacob''s well was there; and Jesus was tired by the fatigue of the journey, and sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. ⁷ And there came a woman from Samaria to draw water; and Jesus said to her, Give me water to drink. ⁸ His disciples had entered into the city to buy food for themselves. ⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, How is it? You are a Jew, and yet you ask me for a drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For Jews have no social intercourse with Samaritans. ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, If you only knew the gift of God, and who is the man who said to you, Give me a drink; you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. ¹¹ The woman said to him, My lord, you have no leather bucket, and no deep well; where do you get the living water? ¹² Why, are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, and he himself drank from it, and his sons and his sheep? ¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 10:5, Matthew 10:6, Luke 2:49, Luke 9:51, Luke 9:52, Luke 17:11

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 13:32 - in the cities 1 Kings 16:24 - the name of the city 1 John 5:11 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Genesis 4:17
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch; and he started to build a village, and named the village after the name of his son, Enoch.

Genesis 4:19
And Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Genesis 4:20
And Adah bore Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents, and are owners of cattle.

Genesis 15:17
And it came to pass that when the sun had set and it was dark, behold there appeared a smoking furnace and a burning torch that passed between those pieces.

Exodus 13:12
You shall set apart to the LORD every first-born that opens the womb and every firstling that comes of the animals that you have; the males shall be the LORDS.

Leviticus 9:24
And there came a fire out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar, which all the people saw; they gave praise and fell on their faces.

Numbers 16:35
And there came out a fire from before the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil and all the best of the wheat and of the wine, the firstfruits of them that they shall give to the LORD, I have given them to you.

Numbers 18:17
But the firstlings of the cattle or the firstlings of the sheep or the firstlings of the goats, you shall not redeem, because they are holy; you shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour to the LORD.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he must needs go through Samaria. Not the city, but the country of Samaria; for the way to Galilee from Judea, lay through the midst of Samaria; nor was there any other way, without going a great way about; see Luke 9:51; and which is also confirmed by Josephus c: and this accounts for his going through Samaria, consistently with his forbidding his apostles going in the way of the Gentiles, or into any of the cities of the Samaritans; since here was a necessity for it, or otherwise he himself would not have gone, where he forbid his disciples; though the prohibition may be understood, not of barely going into a Samaritan city; for it was lawful for them, notwithstanding that, to go into one of them, as appears from John 4:8; but of going to preach there,

Matthew 10:5. And besides this necessity, there was another thing that lay upon him, and obliged him to take this tour, and that is, the calling and conversion of a certain woman, and other Samaritans, whom the Father had given to him, and he was to redeem by his blood; and the time of whose effectual calling was now come; and therefore he must needs go this way, and at this particular time. The Arabic and Persic versions represent it, as a purpose and determination in his mind to go this way.

c Antiqu. Jud. 50:20. c 5. & in vita sua, p. 1019.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he must needs go through Samaria - Samaria was between Judea and Galilee. The direct and usual way was to pass through Samaria. Sometimes, however, the Jews took a circuitous route on the east side of the Jordan. See the notes at Matthew 2:22.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 4:4. And he must needs go through Samaria. — Or, It was necessary for him to pass through Samaria: for this plain reason, and no other, because it was the only proper road. Samaria lay northward of Judea, and between the great sea, Galilee, and Jordan; and there was therefore no going from Galilee to Jerusalem but through this province. Luke 17:11; Luke 17:11. From Jerusalem to Galilee through Samaria, according to Josephus, was three days' journey. See his own life.