John 4:38
I have sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
37For in this the word is true: that it is one who sows, and it is another who reaps.
Cross References
Jeremiah 44:4And I sent to you all my servants, the prophets, rising in the night, and sending, and saying: ‘Do not choose to do this abominable word, which I hate.’
Matthew 4:23And Jesus traveled throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every infirmity among the people.
John 1:7He arrived as a witness to offer testimony about the Light, so that all would believe through him.
Acts 4:4But many of those who had heard the word believed. And the number of men became five thousand.
Acts 5:14Now the multitude of men and women who believed in the Lord was ever increasing,
Acts 8:4Therefore, those who had been dispersed were traveling around, evangelizing the Word of God.
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 →