John 4:20 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁰ Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain [i.e., Mt. Gerizim, which was visible from where they were sitting]; but you say that Jerusalem is the place where people should worship [God].”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you [Jews] say that Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary and proper to worship.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you and your people say that it is necessary to worship in Jerusalem.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship."

John 4:20 Cross References

Luke 9:53

And these Samaritans did not welcome Him because He was heading for Jerusalem. [Note: They perceived He was a Jew and Samaritans did not associate with Jews].

John 4:12

Are you greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well? He himself and his sons and cattle [all] drank from it.”