John 4:38

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

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

In Context

37For in this the saying is true, One is who sows, and another who reaps.

39And many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all, as many things as I did.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 44:4However I sent all my servants the prophets to you, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.

Matthew 4:23And Jesus went around all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the good-news of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

John 1:7This man came for testimony so that he might testify about the light, so that all might believe through him.

Acts 4:4But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men became about five thousand.

Acts 5:14And more who believe were added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,

Acts 8:4Indeed therefore those who were scattered abroad passed through proclaiming the good-news, the word.

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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