Then he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sichar, near the spot of ground which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

So spake his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews: for the Jews had already come to a resolution, that if any person acknowledged him Messiah, he should be excluded the synagogue.

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but went thence into the country bordering on the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he abode with his disciples.

And carrying his cross he went forth to a place called the Place of a Skull, which in the Hebrew is termed Golgotha: