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Jacob's Well, [a] also known as Jacob's Fountain or the Well of Sychar, is a Christian holy site located in Balata village, a suburb of the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The well, currently situated inside an Eastern Orthodox church and monastery, has been associated in religious tradition with the biblical patriarch ...
The New Testament mentions Samaria in Luke 17:11–2, [37] in the miraculous healing of the ten lepers, which took place on the border of Samaria and Galilee. John 4:1-26 [38] records Jesus' encounter at Jacob's Well with the woman of Sychar, in which he declares himself to be the
Jacob's Well and Joseph's Tomb are both identified, and Nablus is stated as being the location of Biblical Shechem, in contrast to the modern identification with Tell Balata. Balata is a village on an ancient site, and it has ancient cisterns and canals. [14] In 1896, a Samaritan sarcophagus was found at the house of a local fellah. [15]
The Water of Life Discourse between Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well by Angelika Kauffmann, 17th–18th century. The Samaritan woman at the well is a figure from the Gospel of John. John 4:4–42 relates her conversation with Jesus at Jacob's Well near the city of Sychar.
The city of Samaria gave its name to the mountains of Samaria, the central region of the Land of Israel, surrounding the city of Shechem. This usage probably began after the city became Omri's capital, but is first documented only after its conquest by Sargon II of Assyria , who turned the kingdom into the province of Samerina.
In the New Testament accounts, the principal locations for the ministry of Jesus were Galilee and Judea, with activities also taking place in surrounding areas such as Perea and Samaria. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The gospel narrative of the ministry of Jesus is traditionally separated into sections that have a geographical nature.
Jesus asks a Samaritan woman of Sychar for water from Jacob's Well, and after spending two days telling her townsfolk "all things" as the woman expected the Messiah to do, and presumably repeating the Good News that he is the Messiah, many Samaritans become followers of Jesus. He accepts without comment the woman's assertion that she and her ...
Some scholars believe the location of Sychar is at the foot of Mount Ebal, but other scholars disagree because the proposed location is 1 km (0.62 mi) from Jacob's Well, which they think is not close enough for the women of Sychar to have fetched their water there. Based on John 4:15, these scholars have argued that Shechem is the Samaritan ...