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Now he came to a Samaritan town[a] called Sychar,[b] near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.[c]

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  1. John 4:5 tn Grk “town of Samaria.” The noun Σαμαρείας (Samareias) has been translated as an attributive genitive.
  2. John 4:5 sn Sychar was somewhere in the vicinity of Shechem, possibly the village of Askar, 1.5 km northeast of Jacob’s well.
  3. John 4:5 sn Perhaps referred to in Gen 48:22.