John 4:37

for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36And he who is reaping receives a reward, and gathers fruit to continuous life, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;

38I sent you to reap on that which you have not labored; others labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

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Cross References

Job 31:8Let me sow—and another eat, || And let my products be rooted out.

Luke 19:21for I was afraid of you, because you are an austere man; you take up what you did not lay down, 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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