John 4:37

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

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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 to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

38I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t laboured. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labour.”

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Cross References

Job 31:8then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

Luke 19:21for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t 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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