John 4:37

For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

38I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”

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Cross References

Job 31:8then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

Luke 19:21For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did 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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