Discovery BoxJohn 4:5 
Context4:5 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
Context19:39 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.
