John 4:38

I 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."

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

39Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him because of the woman's statement when she declared, "He has told me all that I have ever done."

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Cross References

Matthew 4:23Then Jesus travelled through all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and infirmity among the people.

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

Acts 4:4But many of those who had listened to their preaching believed; and the number of the adult men had now grown to be about 5,000.

Acts 5:14and more and more believers in the Lord joined them, including great numbers both of men and women--

Acts 8:4Those, however, who were scattered abroad went from place to place spreading the Good News of God's Message;

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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