Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
must needs go through Samaria--for a geographical reason, no doubt, as it lay straight in his way, but certainly not without a higher design.
CHRIST AND THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA--THE SAMARITANS OF SYCHAR. (John 4:1-42)
the Lord knew--not by report, but in the sense of John 2:25, for which reason He is here styled "the Lord."
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