John 4:37

John 4:37

35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes ^athe harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, ^bfor they are already white for harvest!

36 ^aAnd he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that ^bboth he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

37 For in this the saying is true: ^a‘One sows and another reaps.’

38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; ^aothers have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

The Savior of the World

39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him ^abecause of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.”

40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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For herein (en gar toutw). In this relation between the sower and the reaper.

The saying (o logov). Like I Timothy 1:15; I Timothy 3:1, etc. Probably a proverb that is particularly true (alhqinov for which see John 1:9) in the spiritual realm.

One soweth, and another reapeth (allov estin o speirwn kai allov o qerizwn). "One is the sower and another the reaper." It is sad when the sower misses the joy of reaping (Job 31:8) and has only the sowing in tears (Psalms 126:5 f.). This may be the punishment for sin (Deuteronomy 28:30; Micah 6:15). Sometimes one reaps where he has not sown (Deuteronomy 6:11; Joshua 24:13). It is the prerogative of the Master to reap (Matthew 25:26 f.), but Jesus here lets the disciples share his joy.

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