John 4:37

And here the saying holds true, One sows, and another reaps.

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal: that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

38I sent you to reap that upon which you bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and you have entered into their labours.

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Cross References

Luke 19:21For I feared you, because you are a severe man: you take up what you have not laid down, and reap 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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