John 4:31-38

Evangelical Heritage Version

³¹ Meanwhile, the disciples kept urging him, “Rabbi, eat.”

³² But Jesus said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

³³ Then the disciples said to each other, “Did anyone bring him something to eat?”

³⁴ Jesus told them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. ³⁵ Do you not say, ‘Four more months and the harvest will be here’? Pay attention to what I am telling you. Open your eyes and look at the fields, because they are already^[a] ripe for harvest. ³⁶ The reaper is getting paid and is gathering grain for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. ³⁷ Indeed in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ ³⁸ I sent you to reap a harvest for which you did no hard work. Others have done the hard work, and you have benefitted from their labor.”