John 4:37

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

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36Already is the reaper receiving wages, and gathering fruit unto everlasting life; that both the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

38I have sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.

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Cross References

Job 31:8Then I may sow, and another eat; And what I plant, may it be rooted up!

Luke 19:21For I feared thee, because thou art a harsh man; thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and reapest what thou didst 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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