4and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.


In Context

1 When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,

2 (though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)

3 he left Judea and went away again to Galilee,

4 and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.

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

6 and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:4Now he had to 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.