John 4:31-38

Christian Standard Bible

³¹ In the meantime the disciples kept urging him, “Rabbi,^(A) eat something.”

³² But he said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

³³ The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?”

³⁴ “My food is to do the will of him^(B) who sent me^(C) and to finish his work,”^(D) Jesus told them. ³⁵ “Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open^[a] your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready^[b] for harvest. ³⁶ The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life,^(E) so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. ³⁷ For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’^{(F) 38} I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from^[c] their labor.”