John 4:37

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

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

38I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil."

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Cross References

Luke 19:21"‘For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take what you 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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