John 4:27-44

²⁷And immediately his disciples came; and they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? or, why talkest thou with her?

²⁸The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there:

²⁹Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?

³⁰They went therefore out of the city, and came unto him.

³¹In the mean time the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.

³²But he said to them: I have meat to eat, which you know not.

³³The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?

³⁴Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

³⁵Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries; for they are white already to harvest.

³⁶And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.

³⁷For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

³⁸I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.

³⁹Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done.

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.

⁴¹And many more believed in him because of his own word.

⁴²And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

⁴³Now after two days, he departed thence, and went into Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.