Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
41 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John" 2 -although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized- 3 he left Judea and started back to Galilee.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 4:1-3
Commentary on John 4:1-3
(Read John 4:1-3)
Jesus applied himself more to preaching, which was the more excellent, 1 Corinthians 1:17, than to baptism. He would put honour upon his disciples, by employing them to baptize. He teaches us that the benefit of sacraments depends not on the hand that administers them.