‘So he comes to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph, and Jacob's well was there.'
Sychar is commonly identified with Askar, a village about one mile (one and a half kilometres) North East of Jacob's Well, on the Eastern lower slopes of Mount Ebal. For the giving of the land to Joseph see Genesis 48:22. Jacob's Well is still there on a site almost universally recognised as authentic. It is 100 feet (30 metres) deep.