💫WEB · John 4:38
What does John 4:38 mean?
"I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”"
— John 4:38 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’
I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”
So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
Many more believed because of his word.
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