John 4:37

For in this is [verified] the true saying, It is one who sows and another who reaps.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.

38I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.

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Cross References

Job 31:8Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

Luke 19:21For I feared thee because thou art a harsh man: thou takest up what thou hast not laid down, and thou reapest what thou hast not sowed.

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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