John 4:37

For here the proverb holds good – ‘One sows, another reaps.’

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

36Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering in sheaves for eternal life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together.

38I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have reaped the results of their labor.”

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Cross References

Luke 19:21For I was afraid of you, because you are a stern man. You take what you have not planted, and reap what you have not sown.’

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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