John 4:36

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

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In The King James Version

And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

In Context

35Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

37For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

Romans 1:13Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (and was hindered so far), that I might have some fruit amongst you also, even as amongst the rest of the Gentiles.

1 Corinthians 3:5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

Philippians 2:15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, amongst whom you are seen as lights in the world,

1 Timothy 4:16Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

James 5:19Brothers, if any amongst you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

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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