John 4:37

Now the saying, ‘One is the sower and another the reaper,’ is true in this:

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36Now he who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit into eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

38I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labors.”

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Cross References

Luke 19:21—I feared you because you are a hard man, removing what you did not place, and reaping 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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