John 4:25-43

²⁵The woman saith to him, 'I have known that Messiah doth come, who is called Christ, when that one may come, he will tell us all things;'

²⁶Jesus saith to her, 'I am he, who am speaking to thee.'

²⁷And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, 'What seekest thou?' or 'Why speakest thou with her?'

²⁸The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men,

²⁹'Come, see a man, who told me all things — as many as I did; is this the Christ?'

³⁰They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming unto him.

³¹And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, 'Rabbi, eat;'

³²and he said to them, 'I have food to eat that ye have not known.'

³³The disciples then said one to another, 'Did any one bring him anything to eat?'

³⁴Jesus saith to them, 'My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

³⁵do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.

³⁶'And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;

³⁷for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

³⁸I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.

³⁹And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, — 'He told me all things — as many as I did.'

⁴⁰When, then, the Samaritans came unto him, they were asking him to remain with them, and he remained there two days;

⁴¹and many more did believe because of his word,

⁴²and said to the woman — 'No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world — the Christ.'

⁴³And after the two days he went forth thence, and went away to Galilee,