John 4:27–38

²⁷Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” ²⁸Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, ²⁹“Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah,ⁿ can he?”^{* 30}They left the city and were on their way to him.

³¹Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” ³²But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” ³³So the disciples said to one another, “Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” ³⁴Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.^{* 35}Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting.^{* 36}The reaper is already receiving^o wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.^{* 37}For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’^{* 38}I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”