John 4:4
Modern Translations
New International Version
Now he had to go through Samaria.

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

English Standard Version
And he had to pass through Samaria.

Berean Study Bible
Now He had to pass through Samaria.

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

NASB 1995
And He had to pass through Samaria.

NASB 1977
And He had to pass through Samaria.

Amplified Bible
Now He had to go through Samaria.

Christian Standard Bible
He had to travel through Samaria;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He had to travel through Samaria,

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus had to go through Samaria.

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

NET Bible
But he had to pass through Samaria.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And he must needs go through Samaria.

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

King James 2000 Bible
And he must needs go through Samaria.

New Heart English Bible
He needed to pass through Samaria.

World English Bible
He needed to pass through Samaria.

American King James Version
And he must needs go through Samaria.

American Standard Version
And he must needs pass through Samaria.

A Faithful Version
Now it was necessary for Him to pass through Samaria.

Darby Bible Translation
And he must needs pass through Samaria.

English Revised Version
And he must needs pass through Samaria.

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And he must needes goe through Samaria.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For it was so that he must needes go through Samaria.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But he must nedes go thorow Samaria.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And it was so that he must nedes goo thorowe Samaria.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and it was necessary [for] Him to go through Samaria.

Berean Literal Bible
And it was necessary for Him to pass through Samaria.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
And it was necessary for him to pass through Samaria.

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

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
Now he needed to cross through Samaria.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But it was necessary for him to come and pass through Samaria.

Lamsa Bible
He had to go through Samaritan territory.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
And it was necessary that he should go through Samaria.

Godbey New Testament
And it behooved Him to go through Samaria.

Haweis New Testament
Now he must necessarily pass through Samaria.

Mace New Testament
but being obliged to pass through Samaria,

Weymouth New Testament
His road lay through Samaria,

Worrell New Testament
And it was necessary that He should go through Samaria.

Worsley New Testament
And as He must pass through the country of Samaria, He came to a Samaritan city called Sichar,
















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