John 4:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”

Cross References

1 Kings 9:3

And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before me; I have consecrated this house which you have built, and put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

1 Chronicles 21:26

And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord, and he answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.

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.”

2 Chronicles 6:6

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

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.

2 Chronicles 7:16

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

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.

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool; what is the house which you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?

Luke 9:53

but the people would not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem.

John 4:12

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?”

Deuteronomy 11:29

And when the Lord your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

Deuteronomy 27:12

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