John 4:37

For in this the saying is true, One is who sows, and another who reaps.

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In The King James Version

And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

In Context

36And he who reaps receives a wage and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

38I sent you to reap what ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.

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Cross References

Job 31:8then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

Luke 19:21For I was afraid of thee because thou are an austere man. Thou take up what thou did not lay down, and reap what thou did not sow.

Matthew Henry on John 4:28-43

Christ at the Well of Samaria. 27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? 28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, 29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? 30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. 31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to… Read the whole commentary →

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