and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”

On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

“All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”

Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”

They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’”

Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.

When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.

They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’

And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.

and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

If you worship me, it will all be yours.”

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’”

Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.

Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.

Jesus Predicts His Death

Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival.

But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.’

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars. This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets: “‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?

You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile’ beyond Babylon.