John 4:1-4 When the Lord, therefore, knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ When the Lord, therefore, knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John, ² [though it was not indeed Jesus himself, but his disciples who baptized] ³ he left Judea and went again into Galilee: ⁴ and as he must needs pass through Samaria,