John 4:27–38

²⁷At that moment Jesus’ disciples returned, and they were greatly surprised to find him talking with a woman. But none of them said to her, “What do you want?” or asked him, “Why are you talking with her?”

²⁸Then the woman left her water jar, went back to the town, and said to the people there, ²⁹“Come and see the man who told me everything I have ever done. Could he be the Messiah?” ³⁰So they left the town and went to Jesus.

³¹In the meantime the disciples were begging Jesus, “Teacher, have something to eat!”

³²But he answered, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

³³So the disciples started asking among themselves, “Could somebody have brought him food?”

³⁴“My food,” Jesus said to them, “is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do. ³⁵You have a saying, ‘Four more months and then the harvest.’ But I tell you, take a good look at the fields; the crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested! ³⁶The one who reaps the harvest is being paid and gathers the crops for eternal life; so another who sows and the one who reaps will be glad together. ³⁷The saying is true, ‘One sows, another reaps.’ ³⁸I have sent you to reap a harvest in a field where you did not work; others worked there, and you profit from their work.”