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John 4:38

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

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

In Context

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

39Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did."

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Cross References

Matthew 4:23Then Jesus went about through Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and infirmity among the people.

John 1:7He came as a witness, that he might bear testimony concerning the Light - so that all men might believe through him.

Acts 4:4But many of those who had heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

Acts 5:14Yet the people continued to hold them in high honor, and more and more believers in the Lord were joining them, both men and women.

Acts 8:4So those who were scattered abroad were going everywhere preaching the word.

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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