Samaria (Sebaste; Sebastiya)‎ - Latin Cathedral of St. John the Baptist

Paragraph: 
6-8
Translation: 

(6) From Tabor we went to the Sea of Tiberias, and the city which was once called Samaria, but its name is now Neapolis. In it is the well where the Lord asked the Samaritan woman for water, and a basilica of Saint John has been built there. This well is in front of the altar-screen, and they have a bucket there which, is is said, is the very one from which the Lord drank. Many diseases are cured there. - - -

(8) As we were going down through Galilee along the Jordan we passed through many cities mentioned in the Bible, and arrived at the capital city of Galilee. It is called Scythopolis, and stands on a hill, and it is where Saint John performs many miracles. From there we went up past a number of places belonging to Samaria and Judaea to the city of Se baste, the resting-place of the Prophet Elisha. - - -

(transl. Wilkinson)

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Summary: 
Confused mention of the basilica of Saint John, from an itinerary of ca. AD 570.
Commentary: 

The mention of the shrine of Saint John in ch. 6 confuses this church with the Church of the Well of the Samaritan Woman (Jacob’s Well) at Neapolis, and locates Neapolis on the Sea of Galilee, while the mention of Saint John in ch. 8 probably refers to his holy place not in Scythopolis but in Samaria-Sebaste, where his tomb was located in the same church as the tomb of Elisha.