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John 4:27-38 NIV
27 Just then his disciples
returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no
one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the
town and said to the people,
29 "Come, see a man who told me
everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"
30 They came out of the town
and made their way toward him.
31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat
something."
32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know
nothing about."
33 Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have
brought him food?"
34 "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent
me and to finish his work.
35 Do you not say, 'Four months
more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at
the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
36 Even now the reaper draws
his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that
the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
37 Thus the saying 'One sows
and another reaps' is true.
38 I sent you to reap what you
have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have
reaped the benefits of their labor." |
