John 4:37

for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

36'And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;

38I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.

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Cross References

Job 31:8Let me sow — and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.

Luke 19:21for I was afraid of thee, because thou art an austere man; thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and reapest what thou didst 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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