John 4:37

For in this the true saying is verified: ‘One sows and another reaps.’

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

38I sent you to reap what you have not labored for; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

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Cross References

Luke 19:21For I was afraid of yoʋ, because yoʋ are a stern man. Yoʋ take out what yoʋ did not put in, and yoʋ reap what yoʋ 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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