John 4:31–42 · BSB
4:31
Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
4:32
But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
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4:33
So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?”
4:34
Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
4:35
Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
4:36
Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
4:37
For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
4:38
I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”
4:39
Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
4:40
So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.
4:41
And many more believed because of His message.
4:42
They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”
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