John 4:38
I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
37For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.
Cross References
Jeremiah 44:4And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate.
Matthew 4:23And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and healing all manner of sickness and every infirmity, among the people.
John 1:7This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that all men might believe through him.
Acts 4:4But many of them who had heard the word, believed; and the number of the men was made five thousand.
Acts 5:14And the multitude of men and women who believed in the Lord, was more increased:
Acts 8:4They therefore that were dispersed, went about preaching 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 →