John 4:3-6

He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. But He needed to go through Samaria. So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
John 4:3-6 (NKJV)

One thing that appears different about the Gospel of John is the "traveling" between Judea (Jerusalem in particular) and Galilee. In Matthew (ch. 20-27), Mark (ch. 11-15), and Luke (ch. 19-23), Jesus in Jerusalem is pretty much just at the end of their accounts of the Life and Work of Jesus.

Go ahead and run a search of the Gospel of John and the keyword "Jerusalem" and you will find that there are several episodes in Jerusalem prior to the final week leading up to the Crucifixion and Resurrection.

The simplest explanation is that Matthew, Mark, and Luke simply omitted these other visits to Jerusalem. As for the Temple cleansing episode of John 2, there are two possible explanations: Jesus cleansed the Temple twice or John is telling that story out of sequence.

But enough about traveling. In John 4, Jesus is in between Galilee and Judea in Samaria (or as the old preacher's joke goes, "some area) and he takes a break. Here below is a nice map. Jesus stops at Sychar.

image source: http://www.bible-history.com/maps/Map-Samaria-Central-Palestine.gif

Jesus sat by Jacob's Well. We can read about the location at this tourism web page. 

But what is remarkable to me is the simple description, Jesus wearied from His journey, sat by the well at the sixth hour (noon). 

On one hand, we (followers of Jesus) often talk about his miracles and his power and his divine nature. And the Gospel of John has a lot of material along those lines. But John also has these little vignettes that show Jesus' humanity. It is a great mystery how Jesus is truly God and truly human. However, that is what we can conclude from the Bible.

A video I recently saw from Fred Sanders (Biola theology professor) discussed this mystery of the two natures of Christ. In his summary, Sanders said, only God can save us - hence Jesus is divine (Council of Nicaea). Yet, "what is not assumed is not healed" said St. Gregory of Nazianzus at the Council of Constantinople; thus, Jesus is also truly human.

Lord, thank you for the humanity of Jesus. You know weariness. You know thirst. You know the heat of the mid-day sun. In my moments of despair for trivial and legitimate reasons and I feel the experience of human weakness; thank you that you are familiar with these feelings. You have walked that path. And now, I do not have to walk it alone because of what you have done. Amen.