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OET (OET-LV) Therefore he_is_coming to a_city of_ the _Samareia being_called Suⱪar, near the property which Yakōb/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ) gave to_ the _Yōsaʸf/(Yōşēf), the son of_him,
OET (OET-RV) By choosing that route, they came to a town in Samaria called Sukar, which was near the place that the patriarch Yosef had inherited from his father Yacob,
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-time-sequential
ἔρχεται οὖν
˱he˲_/is/_coming therefore
Then here indicates that the events the story will now relate came after the event just described in 4:3. If it would be helpful in your language, you could show this relationship by using a fuller phrase. Alternate translation: [After leaving Judea, he comes]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / pastforfuture
ἔρχεται
˱he˲_/is/_coming
Here John uses the present tense in past narration in order to call attention to a development in the story.
Note 3 topic: translate-names
Συχὰρ
Sychar
Sychar is the name of a place.
4:1-42 At a historic well in Samaria, Jesus offered himself as living water. Jesus engaged and confronted people with the revelation of God, and they either followed or fell away.
• The Samaritan woman contrasted with Nicodemus at every turn: a woman (not a man), a Samaritan (not a Jew), a sinner (not righteous), and an outcast (not one of Israel’s rabbis). While Nicodemus fell silent and never responded to Jesus’ challenges (3:1-21), this woman acknowledged Jesus as Lord, remained in the light, and exhibited signs of discipleship (see 1:35-51).
OET (OET-LV) Therefore he_is_coming to a_city of_ the _Samareia being_called Suⱪar, near the property which Yakōb/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ) gave to_ the _Yōsaʸf/(Yōşēf), the son of_him,
OET (OET-RV) By choosing that route, they came to a town in Samaria called Sukar, which was near the place that the patriarch Yosef had inherited from his father Yacob,
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.