John 4:36
The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
37For in this respect the saying is true, ‘One sows, another reaps.’
Cross References
Romans 1:13I want you to know, brothers, that many a time I have planned to come to you - though until now I have been hindered - so as to have some harvest-fruit among you also, even as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.
1 Corinthians 3:5What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.
Philippians 2:15that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world,
1 Timothy 4:16Give heed to yourself and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.
James 5:19My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings 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 →