John 4:5

4:5 Now he came to a Samaritan town 1  called Sychar, 2  near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 3 

John 19:39

19:39 Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus 4  at night, 5  accompanied Joseph, 6  carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes 7  weighing about seventy-five pounds. 8 

1 tn Grk “town of Samaria.” The noun Σαμαρείας (Samareias) has been translated as an attributive genitive.

2 sn Sychar was somewhere in the vicinity of Shechem, possibly the village of Askar, 1.5 km northeast of Jacob’s well.

3 sn Perhaps referred to in Gen 48:22.

4 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 sn See John 3:1-21.

6 tn Grk “came”; the words “accompanied Joseph” are not in the Greek text but are supplied for clarity.

7 sn Aloes refers to an aromatic resin from a plant similar to a lily, used for embalming a corpse.

8 sn The Roman pound (λίτρα, litra) weighed twelve ounces or 325 grams. Thus 100 Roman pounds would be about 32.5 kilograms or 75 pounds.