Workers for the Harvest

4:31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him,74 “Rabbi, eat something.”75 4:32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” 4:33 So the disciples began to say76 to one another, “No one brought him anything77 to eat, did they?”78 4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me79 and to complete80 his work.81 4:35 Don’t you say,82 ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up83 and see that the fields are already white84 for harvest! 4:36 The one who reaps receives pay85 and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. 4:37 For in this instance the saying is true,86 ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 4:38 I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”