John 4:27–38

The Ripened Harvest

²⁷Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

²⁸Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the men, ²⁹“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?” ^d30They left the town and made their way to Him. ^e

³¹In the meantime the disciples kept urging Him, “Rabbi, ^feat something.”

³²But He said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

³³The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat?”

³⁴“My food is to do the will of Him ^gwho sent Me ^hand to finish His work,” ⁱJesus told them. ³⁵“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open ^jyour eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready ^kfor harvest. ³⁶The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, ^lso the sower and reaper can rejoice together. ³⁷For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ ^m38I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from ⁿtheir labor.”