John 4:20

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 9:3

And the Lord said to him: "I have heard your prayer and your petition, which you prayed before me. I have sanctified this house, which you have built, so that I may place my name there forever, and so that my eyes and my heart will be there for all days.

1 Chronicles 21:26

And he built an altar to the Lord there. And he offered holocausts and peace offerings, and he called upon the Lord. And he heeded him by sending fire from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust.

1 Chronicles 22:1

And David said, "This is the house of God, and this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel."

2 Chronicles 6:6

But I chose Jerusalem, so that my name would be in it. And I chose David, so that I might appoint him over my people Israel.'

2 Chronicles 7:12

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

2 Chronicles 7:16

For I have chosen and sanctified this place, so that my name may be there continually, and so that my eyes and my heart may remain there, for all days.

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What is this house that you would build for me? And what is this place of my rest?

Luke 9:53

And they would not receive him, because his face was going toward Jerusalem.

John 4:12

Surely, you are not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and who drank from it, with his sons and his cattle?"

Deuteronomy 11:29

Yet truly, when the Lord your God will have led you into the land, to which you are traveling for a habitation, you shall place the blessing upon Mount Gerizim, the curse upon Mount Ebal,

Deuteronomy 27:12

"These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim, as a blessing to the people, when you will have crossed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.