John 4:20

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Our fathers worshipped in this mountayne, and ye say that in Hierusalem is the place, where men ought to worshippe.

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  • Deut 27:12 : 12 These shall stande vpon mount Garizim to blesse the people, when ye are come ouer Iordane, Simeon, Leui, Iuda, Isachar, Ioseph, & Beniamin.
  • Gen 12:6-7 : 6 Abram passed through the lande, vnto the place of Sichem, vnto the plaine of Moreh. And the Chanaanite was then in the lande. 7 And the Lorde appearyng vnto Abram, sayd, Unto thy seede wyl I geue this lande: And there buylded he an aulter vnto the Lorde whiche appeared vnto hym.
  • Deut 11:29 : 29 When the Lorde thy God therefore hath brought thee into the lande whyther thou goest to possesse it, thou shalt put the blessing vpon mount Garizim, and the curse vpon mount Ebal.
  • Deut 12:5-9 : 5 But ye shall seeke the place which the Lorde your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and there to dwell, and thyther thou shalt come: 6 And thyther ye shal bryng your burnt sacrifices, your offeringes, your tithes, and heaue offeringes of your hande, your vowes, your freewyll offeringes, and the first borne of your kyne, and of your sheepe. 7 And there ye shall eate before the Lorde your God, and ye shall reioyce in all that ye put your hande vnto, both ye and your housholdes, wherin the Lord thy God hath blessed thee. 8 Ye shall not do after all the thinges that we do here this day, euery man what seemeth hym good in his owne eyes. 9 For ye are not yet come to rest, and to the inheritaunce whiche the Lord your God geueth you. 10 But when ye go ouer Iordane, and dwell in the lande whiche the Lorde your God hath geuen you to inherite, and when he hath geuen you rest from al your enemies rounde about, and shal dwell in safetie: 11 Then vnto the place which the Lord your God hath chosen to put his name there, ye shall bryng all that I commaunde you: namely, your burnt sacrifices, your offeringes, your tithes, the heaue offering of your hande, and all your speciall vowes whiche ye vowe vnto the Lorde.
  • Gen 33:18-20 : 18 And Iacob came to Sale, a citie of Sichem, whiche is in the lande of Chanaan, after that he was come from Mesopotamia, and pitched before the citie. 19 And bought a parcell of grounde, where he pitched his tent, of the chyldren of Hemor Sichems father, for an hundreth peeces of money. 20 And he made there an aulter, and called it, the mightie God of Israel.
  • Josh 8:33-35 : 33 And all Israel and the elders therof, and their officers & iudges, stoode part on this syde the arke, and part on that syde, before the priestes that were Leuites whiche bare the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, aswell the straunger, as they that were borne among them: halfe of the ouer against mount Garizim, & halfe of them ouer against mount Ebal, as Moyses the seruaunt of the Lorde had commaunded before, that they shoulde blesse the people of Israel. 34 Afterwarde he read all the wordes of the lawe, the blessinges, and cursinges, accordyng to all that is written in the booke of the lawe. 35 And there was not one worde of all that Moyses commaunded, which Iosuah read not before all the congregation of Israel, aswel the women and chyldren, as the straungers that were conuersaunt among them.
  • Judg 9:6-7 : 6 And all the men of Sichem gathered together, and al the house of Mello, and came and made Abimelech kyng in the playne, where the stone was in Sichem. 7 And when they tolde it to Ioatham, he went and stoode in the top of mount Garizim, and lyft vp his voyce, & cryed, and sayd vnto them: Hearken vnto me you men of Sichem, that God may hearken vnto you.
  • 1 Kgs 9:3 : 3 And ye Lord said vnto him, I haue heard thy prayer & thy intercession that thou hast made before me: For I haue halowed this house, which thou hast built to put my name there for euer, & mine eies & myne hearte shalbe there perpetually.
  • 2 Kgs 17:26-33 : 26 Wherfore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying: The nations which thou hast translated & put in the cities of Samaria knowe not the lawe of the God of the lande: therefore he hath sent lions vpon them, and behold they slay them, because they knowe not the maner of worshipping the God of the lande. 27 Then the king of Assyria commaunded, saying: Cary thyther one of the priestes whom ye brought thence, and let hym go and dwell there, and teache them the fashion how to serue the God of the countrey. 28 And then one of the priestes whom they had caried from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them howe they shoulde feare the Lorde. 29 Howebeit euery nation made them gods of their owne, and put them in the houses of the hygh places whiche the Samaritans had made, euery nation in their cities wherin they dwelt. 30 The men of Babylon made Socoth Benoth, & the men of Cuth made Nergal, & the men of Hamath made Asima, 31 The Auites made Nibbaz and Tharthak: And the Sepharuites burnt their children in fire for Adramelech and Anamelech, the gods of Sepharuaim. 32 And so they feared the Lorde, & made them priestes of the basist of them, which sacrifised for them in the houses of the hygh places. 33 And so they feared the Lord, and serued their owne gods, after the maner of the people whom they caryed thence.
  • 1 Chr 21:26 : 26 And Dauid buylt there an aulter vnto the Lorde, and offred burnt offringes and peace offringes, and called vpon the Lorde, and he hearde him from heauen in fire vpon the aulter of burnt offring.
  • 1 Chr 22:1 : 1 And Dauid said: This is the house of the lord God, & this is the aulter for the burnt offring of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 6:6 : 6 Sauing that I haue chosen Hierusalem, that my name might be there, and haue chosen Dauid to be ouer my people Israel.
  • 2 Chr 7:12 : 12 And the Lorde appeared to Solomon by night, and sayd to him: I haue heard thy petition, and haue chosen this place for my selfe to be an house of sacrifice.
  • 2 Chr 7:16 : 16 And therfore nowe I haue chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for euer: and myne eyes and myne heart shalbe there perpetually.
  • Ps 78:68 : 68 But he chose the tribe of Iuda: euen the hill of Sion which he loued.
  • Ps 87:1-2 : 1 A psalme, the song of the sonnes of Corach. God loueth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellynges of Iacob: for her foundations are vpon the holy hilles. 2 for her foundations are vpon the holy hilles.
  • Ps 132:13 : 13 For God hath chosen to be in Sion: he had a desire that it might be an habitation for hym.
  • Luke 9:53 : 53 And they woulde not receaue him, because his face was as though he woulde go to Hierusalem.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 4:21-25
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    21 Iesus sayth vnto her: woman beleue me, the houre commeth, when ye shall neither in this mountayne, nor yet at Hierusalem, worshippe the father.

    22 Ye worshippe ye wote not what. We knowe what we worshippe: For saluation commeth of the Iewes.

    23 But the houre commeth, and nowe is, when the true worshippers, shall worshippe the father in spirite, and in the trueth: For such the father also requireth to worshippe hym.

    24 God is a spirite, and they that worshippe hym, must worshippe hym in spirite, and in the trueth.

    25 The woman sayth vnto hym, I wote that Messias shal come, which is called Christe: when he is come, he wyll tell vs all thynges.

  • 19 The woman sayth vnto hym: Syr, I perceaue that thou art a prophete.

  • John 4:7-13
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    7 And there came a woman of Samaria to drawe water: Iesus sayth vnto her, geue me drynke.

    8 For his disciples were gone away, vnto the towne to bye meate.

    9 Then sayth the woman of Samaria vnto hym: Howe is it, that thou beyng a Iewe, askest drynke of me, which am a Samaritane? For the Iewes meddle not with the Samaritanes.

    10 Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto her: yf thou knewest the gyft of God, & who it is that sayeth to thee geue me drynke, thou wouldest haue asked of hym, and he woulde haue geuen thee water of lyfe.

    11 The woman sayth vnto hym: Syr, thou hast nothyng to drawe with, and the well is deepe: from whence then hast thou that water of lyfe?

    12 Art thou greater then our father Iacob, which gaue vs the well, and he hym selfe dranke therof, and his chyldren, and his cattell?

    13 Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto her: Whosoeuer drynketh of this water, shal thyrst agayne:

  • John 4:4-5
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    4 For it was so that he must needes go through Samaria.

    5 Then came he to a citie of Samaria, which is called Sichar, besydes the possession that Iacob gaue to his sonne Ioseph.

  • 35 Nor by the earth, for it is his footestoole, neither by Hierusalem, for it is the citie of the great kyng.

  • 36 What maner of saying is this that he sayde, ye shall seke me, and shall not fynde me: and where I am, thyther can ye not come?

  • John 4:15-17
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    15 The woman sayth vnto hym: Syr, geue me of that water, that I thyrst not, neither come hyther to drawe.

    16 Iesus sayth vnto her: Go, call thy husbande, and come hyther.

    17 The woman aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: I haue no husbande. Iesus sayde vnto her: Thou hast well sayde, I haue no husbande.

  • Gal 4:25-26
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    25 For Agar is the mount Sina in Arabia, and bordreth vpon the citie, which is nowe called Hierusalem, and is in bondage with her chyldren.

    26 But Hierusalem which is aboue, is free: which is the mother of vs all.

  • 39 Many of the Samaritanes of that citie beleued on hym, for the saying of the woman, which testified that he tolde her all that euer she dyd.

  • 42 And sayde vnto the woman: Nowe we beleue, not because of thy saying: for we haue heard him our selues, & know that this is euen Christe, the sauiour of the worlde.

  • John 2:18-21
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    18 Then aunswered the Iewes, & sayde vnto hym: What token shewest thou vnto vs, seeyng that thou doest these thynges?

    19 Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto them: Destroy this temple, & in three dayes I wyll reare it vp.

    20 Then sayde the Iewes, fourtie and sixe yeres was this temple a buildyng, and wilt thou reare it vp in three dayes?

    21 But he spake of the temple of his body.

  • 22 If ye say vnto me, we trust in the Lorde our God: Is not that he whose hygh places and whose aulters Hezekia hath put downe? and hath sayd to Iuda and Hierusalem, ye shall worship before this aulter here in Hierusalem.

  • John 6:30-32
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    30 They said therfore vnto hym: What signe shewest thou then, yt we may see, & beleue thee? What doest thou worke?

    31 Our fathers dyd eate Manna in the desert, as it is written: He gaue them bread from heauen to eate.

    32 Then Iesus sayde vnto them: Ueryly veryly I say vnto you, Moyses gaue you not yt bread fro heauen, but my father geueth you ye true bread fro heaue.

  • 6 But I say vnto you, that in this place is one greater then the temple.

  • John 8:19-20
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    19 Then sayde they vnto hym: Where is thy father? Iesus aunswered, Ye neither knowe me, nor yet my father: Yf ye had knowen me, ye should haue knowen my father also.

    20 These wordes spake Iesus in ye treasurie, as he taught in the temple, and no man layde handes on hym, for his houre was not yet come.

  • 28 Then saide they vnto him: What shall we do, that we myght worke ye workes of God?

  • 2 Our feete shall stande in thy gates: O Hierusalem.

  • 17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Iuda, and in the streetes of Hierusalem?

  • John 8:38-39
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    38 I speake that whiche I haue seene with my father: and ye do that whiche ye haue seene with your father.

    39 They aunswered, and saide vnto him: Abraham is our father. Iesus saith vnto them: Yf ye were Abrahams childre, ye woulde do the workes of Abraham.

  • 41 Ye do the deedes of your father. Then said they to him: We be not borne of fornication, we haue one father, euen God.

  • 5 But ye shall seeke the place which the Lorde your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and there to dwell, and thyther thou shalt come:

  • 30 Then they went out of the citie, and came vnto hym.

  • John 4:27-28
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    27 And immediatly came his disciples, and marueyled that he talked with the woman: Yet no man saide, what seekest thou, or why talkest thou with her?

    28 The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the citie, & sayth to the men:

  • 1 After this, was there a feast day of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.

  • 9 They sayde vnto hym: Where wylt thou that we prepare?

  • 20 There were certaine Grekes among them, that came to worship at the feast:

  • 1 Then came to Iesus Scribes and Pharisees, which were come from Hierusalem, saying:

  • 25 The sayde some of them of Hierusale: Is not this he, whom they go about to kyll?