John 4:20

Bible in Basic English 1965

Our fathers gave worship on this mountain, but you Jews say that the right place for worship is in Jerusalem.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:3

And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

1 Chronicles 21:26

And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.

1 Chronicles 22:1

Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for Israel's burned offerings.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 7:12

Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

2 Chronicles 7:16

For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

Psalm 132:13

For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place.

Psalm 78:68

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

Isaiah 66:1

The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?

Luke 9:53

But they would not have him there, because he was clearly going to Jerusalem.

John 4:12

Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?

Deuteronomy 11:29

And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land of your heritage, you are to put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

Deuteronomy 27:12

These are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for blessing the people when you have gone over Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;