John 4:28-41

²⁸So the woman left her water pot, went back to the town, and said to the people,

²⁹“Come, see a man who told me everything that I have ever done. This could not be the Christ, could it?”

³⁰They left the town and came to him.

³¹In the meantime, the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

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

³³So the disciples said to each other, “No one has brought him anything to eat, have they?”

³⁴Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.

³⁵Do you not say, 'There are four more months and then the harvest comes'? I am saying to you, look up and see the fields, for they are already ripe for harvest!

³⁶He who is harvesting receives wages and gathers fruit for everlasting life, so that he who sows and he who harvests may rejoice together.

³⁷For in this the saying, 'One sows, and another harvests,' is true.

³⁸I sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have entered into their labor.”

³⁹Many of the Samaritans in that city believed in him because of the report of the woman who was testifying, “He told me everything that I have done.”

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

⁴¹Many more believed because of his word.