4Now he had to go through Samaria.


In Context

1 The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,

2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.

3 When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria.

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

6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:4And he must needs go through Samaria.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:4And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:4And he must needs pass through Samaria.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:4And he must needs go through Samaria.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:4And he must needs go through Samaria.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:4And he must needs pass through Samaria.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:4And he must needs pass through Samaria.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:4He needed to pass through Samaria.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:4and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.