John 4:37

For in this the saying is true, One sows and another reaps. + 4:37 Job 31:8; Mic 6:15

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36The one harvesting receives wages and gathers p'ri (fruit) unto Chayyei Olam, that the one sowing and the other one harvesting may have simcha together.

38I sent you to harvest that upon which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.

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Cross References

Job 31:8Then let me sow, and let acher (another) eat; 1 yea, let my harvest be uprooted. 1

Luke 19:21For I was fearing you, because you are a big machmir (stickler), you take what you did not deposit, and you 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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