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Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—
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although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.
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So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
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Now he had to go through Samaria.
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So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
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Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.