And he must needs go through Samaria.
And [ de (G1161 ), or, 'Now'] he must needs go through Samaria - for a geographical reason, no doubt; the nearest way from Judea to Galilee being through the intermediate province of Samaria: but certainly it was not without a higher design-He "needed" to meet with the woman at Jacob's well, and to reap the blessed fruit of that meeting.