John 4:27-36 (New International Version)

The Disciples Rejoin Jesus

 ²⁷Just 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?"

 ²⁸Then, 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^[a]?" ³⁰They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

 ³¹Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."

 ³²But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

 ³³Then 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. ³⁵Do 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. ³⁶Even 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.