John 4:37

In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

38I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.

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Cross References

Job 31:8Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

Luke 19:21Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed.

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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