Samaritan town near Shechem at the foot of Mount Gerizim, the site of one of the most theologically rich narratives in the Gospel of John (John 4:5-42). Returning from Judea to Galilee, the Lord Jesus came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour (John 4:6). The Samaritan woman came to draw water; Jesus asked her for a drink; the ensuing conversation moved from physical water to the living water He gives (whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life, John 4:14), to the woman's marital history (five husbands and a present non-husband), to the question of true worship (God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth, John 4:24), and finally to the Lord's explicit self-revelation as the Messiah (I that speak unto thee am he, John 4:26). The woman returned to the city, called the men to come see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? (John 4:29), and many of the Samaritans of Sychar believed on Him for the saying of the woman. Jesus stayed two days; many more believed because of His own word; they confessed Him as indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world. The patriarchal-Reformed reader receives Sychar as the great Johannine witness to (1) Christ's deliberate inclusion of the despised Samaritan people in the gospel mission; (2) the substantive theology of the new-covenant living water and Spirit-worship; (3) the woman's substantive witness to her city as one of the great evangelistic testimonies of the Gospels.