John 4:27-42

New King James Version

The Whitened Harvest

²⁷ And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”

²⁸ The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, ²⁹ “Come, see a Man ^(A)who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” ³⁰ Then they went out of the city and came to Him.

³¹ In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

³² But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”

³³ Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”

³⁴ Jesus said to them, ^(B)“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to ^(C)finish His work. ³⁵ Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes ^(D)the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, ^(E)for they are already white for harvest! ^36 (F)And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that ^(G)both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷ For in this the saying is true: ^(H)‘One sows and another reaps.’ ³⁸ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; ^(I)others 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 ^(J)because 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. ⁴¹ And many more believed because of His own ^(K)word.

⁴² Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for ^(L)we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed ^[a]the Christ, the Savior of the world.”