John 4:37

For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.

38I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.

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Cross References

Job 31:8Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.

Luke 19:21For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and thou reapest that which thou didst 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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