John 4:37

So the proverb ‘one sows, another reaps,’ is true.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

36The reaper is being paid and harvesting a crop for eternal life so that both the sower and the reaper can celebrate.

38I sent you to reap what you didn't work for. Others did the hard work and you have reaped the benefits of what they did.”

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Cross References

Job 31:8then let someone else eat what I have sown, and all that I have grown be uprooted.

Luke 19:21I was afraid of you because you're a hard man. You take what doesn't belong to you, and you harvest what you didn't plant.’

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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