John 4:27–38

Christ Witnesses to the Disciples

²⁷And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”

²⁸The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, ²⁹“Come, see a Man ^xwho told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” ³⁰Then they went out of the city and came to Him.

³¹In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

³²But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”

³³Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”

³⁴Jesus said to them, ^y“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to ^zfinish His work. ³⁵Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes ^athe harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, ^bfor they are already white for harvest! ^36cAnd he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that ^dboth he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷For in this the saying is true: ^e‘One sows and another reaps.’ ³⁸I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; ^fothers have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”