Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Jesus Explains: I Came To Do God’s Will. The Harvest Is Ripe

³¹ In the meantime the disciples were asking Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat”. ³² But the One said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about”. ³³ So the disciples were saying to one another, “Someone did not bring Him something to eat, did he?” ³⁴ Jesus says to them, “My food is that I may do the will of the One having sent Me, and accomplish His work. ³⁵ Do you not say that ‘There are still^[a] four months, and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you— lift-up your eyes and look-at the fields, that^[b] they are white for harvest^[c]. Already ³⁶ the one reaping is receiving wages, and is gathering fruit for life eternal, so that the one sowing and the one reaping may rejoice together. ³⁷ For in this case the saying is true, that ‘One is the one sowing and another^[d] is the one reaping. ³⁸ I sent you out to be reaping what you have not^[e] labored-for. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor”.