John 4:38

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

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

In Context

37Now the saying, ‘One is the sower and another the reaper,’ is true in this:

39Now many of the Samaritans from that city believed into Him because of the word of the woman, testifying that “He told me everything I ever did!”

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Cross References

Matthew 4:23Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness among the people.

John 1:7This man came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.

Acts 4:4(However, many of those who heard the message believed; the number of the men came to be about five thousand.)

Acts 5:14Believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

Acts 8:4So on their part those who were scattered abroad went about preaching the Word.

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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