John 4:1-6:
4:1Therefore as Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and baptizes more learning-disciples than John - .2and-so-indeed Jesus himself did not baptize but his learning-disciples - .3he left Judea and went-away again into Galilee, .4but it was necessary (for) him to go though Samaria. .5Therefore he goes into a city of Samaria being said (as) Sychar neighboring the property which Jacob gave to Joseph his son, .6and the spring of Jacob was there; therefore Jesus, having labored2 from the journey-on-the-way, sat-down thus on the spring - (the) hour was as (the) sixth.
Following-on logically from what is written previously (refer to John 3:22-30), as Jesus knew (as he had personal knowledge [some Greek texts have the word "Lord" instead of "Jesus"]) that the Pharisees heard that Jesus is making (producing) and baptizing more learning-disciples (a bigger number of students) than John (the baptizer with water)...
...he left Judea (in the sense that he let it go, dismissed, sent-away or discharged it from his concern at that time) and he went away again into Galilee (refer to John 2:1-11).
In order to get into Galilee from Judea, the people of the Judean/Israeli background did not usually travel directly northwards through Samaria because they would want to avoid being in contact with those people. Samaritans were people of the Israeli background who had mixed with people of the Gentile background during the time of captivity (refer to II Kings chapter 17).
However, in this record John the writer explains to the readers that it was necessary for Jesus (it was binding, he must, ought, was obligated) to go through (to pass by means of, to travel by way of) Samaria, which was north of Judea on the west side of the Jordan river. This necessity did not originate from the geography of the land but he had been instructed to do this by God (refer to verse 34 below). Therefore Jesus goes (comes)...
...following-on logically, Jesus - who labored and continued to labor (exert wearisome effort, as though physically beating himself by what he as doing, he toiled) from traveling along the way (path, road) - sat down in this manner on/at the spring. The limited period of time while he remained sitting there was during the sixth hour of the day (12 noon, midday).
[Reference: Genesis 33:19, 48:22; Joshua 24:32; II Kings chapter 17; Acts 1:8. Note: verbs with a superscript 2 (2) immediately following them indicate the "perfect" tense - details are provided in the "Relevant Notes" link of this study.]
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