John 4:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Jesus said to her,“Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

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  • 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 So I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.
  • Mal 1:11 : 11 For from the east to the west my name will be great among the nations. Incense and pure offerings will be offered in my name everywhere, for my name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • John 4:23 : 23 But a time is coming– and now is here– when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.
  • Eph 2:18 : 18 so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
  • Eph 3:14 : 14 Prayer for Strengthened Love For this reason I kneel before the Father,
  • John 5:28 : 28 “Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
  • John 16:32 : 32 Look, a time is coming– and has come– when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.
  • Acts 6:14 : 14 For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus replied,“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
  • 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.
  • John 5:25 : 25 I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming– and is now here– when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
  • Ezek 14:3 : 3 “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek me?
  • Ezek 20:3 : 3 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Are you coming to seek me? As surely as I live, I will not allow you to seek me, declares the Sovereign LORD.’
  • Matt 18:20 : 20 For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.”
  • Matt 28:19 : 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
  • Luke 21:5-6 : 5 The Signs of the End of the Age Now while some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said, 6 “As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”
  • Luke 21:24 : 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

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  • John 4:13-20
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    13 Jesus replied,“Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.

    14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”

    15 The woman said to him,“Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

    16 He said to her,“Go call your husband and come back here.”

    17 The woman replied,“I have no husband.” Jesus said to her,“Right you are when you said,‘I have no husband,’

    18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”

    19 The woman said to him,“Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

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

  • John 4:22-30
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    22 You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

    23 But a time is coming– and now is here– when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

    24 God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

    25 The woman said to him,“I know that Messiah is coming”(the one called Christ);“whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”

    26 Jesus said to her,“I, the one speaking to you, am he.”

    27 The Disciples Return Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said,“What do you want?” or“Why are you speaking with her?”

    28 Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,

    29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”

    30 So they left the town and began coming to him.

  • John 2:4
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    4 Jesus replied,“Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.”

  • John 4:5-11
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    5 Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

    6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

    7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her,“Give me some water to drink.”

    8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

    9 So the Samaritan woman said to him,“How can you– a Jew– ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?”(For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

    10 Jesus answered her,“If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you,‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

    11 “Sir,” the woman said to him,“you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

  • John 4:42-43
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    42 They said to the woman,“No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world.”

    43 Onward to Galilee After the two days he departed from there to Galilee.

  • John 7:36
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    36 What did he mean by saying,‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

  • John 7:34
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    34 You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”

  • John 4:39
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    39 The Samaritans Respond Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified,“He told me everything I ever did.”

  • John 20:15
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    15 Jesus said to her,“Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him,“Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him.”

  • John 8:19-21
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    19 Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”

    20 (Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

    21 Where Jesus Came From and Where He is Going Then Jesus said to them again,“I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”

  • John 2:21
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    21 But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

  • John 16:31
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    31 Jesus replied,“Do you now believe?

  • John 11:30
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    30 (Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

  • John 11:27
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    27 She replied,“Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.”

  • John 14:10-11
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    10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

    11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

  • John 16:25
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    25 “I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

  • John 1:51
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    51 He continued,“I tell all of you the solemn truth– you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

  • John 2:19
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    19 Jesus replied,“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”

  • Matt 22:29
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    29 Jesus answered them,“You are deceived, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God.

  • John 11:40
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    40 Jesus responded,“Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?”

  • Matt 5:35
    66%

    35 not by earth, because it is his footstool, and not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

  • John 8:11
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    11 She replied,“No one, Lord.” And Jesus said,“I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”]]

  • John 5:40
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    40 but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

  • John 5:38
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    38 nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

  • John 20:13
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    13 They said to her,“Woman, why are you weeping?” Mary replied,“They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!”

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