John 4:37

For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, `The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together.

38I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours."

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Cross References

Luke 19:21For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man: you take up what you did not lay down, and you 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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