John 4:37

For in this is the proverb true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36And he who reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; and the sower and the reaper shall rejoice together.

38I sent you to reap that (for) which you did not toil; for others toiled, and you have entered upon their labour.

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Cross References

Luke 19:21For I feared thee, because thou art a hard man, taking up what thou hadst not laid down, and reaping what thou sowedst not.

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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