John 4:37

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal; that he that sows, and he that reaps, may rejoice together.

38I have sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.

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Cross References

Luke 19:21For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man; you take up that which you did not lay down, and reap that which you 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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