John 4:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

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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

Deuteronomy 27:12

“When you have crossed over the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

Deuteronomy 11:29

“When the Lord your God has brought you into the land that you are entering to occupy, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

2 Chronicles 7:12

Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.

Luke 9:53

but they did not receive him because his face was set toward Jerusalem.

Psalm 132:13

For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation:

Psalm 78:68

but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.

2 Chronicles 7:16

For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

2 Chronicles 6:6

but I have chosen Jerusalem in order that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

1 Chronicles 22:1

Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”

1 Chronicles 21:26

David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and offerings of well-being. He called upon the Lord, and he answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before me; I have consecrated this house that you have built and put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; so what kind of house could you build for me, what sort of place for me to rest?

John 4:12

Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?”