John 4:28-45

²⁸So the woman left her water jar, went her way into the town, and says to the men:

²⁹“Come see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?”

³⁰So out they went from the town and started toward Him.

³¹Now in 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 started saying to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat?”

³⁴Jesus says 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 months before the harvest comes?’ Well I say, Look! Lift your eyes and observe the fields; they are white for harvest already!

³⁶Now he who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit into eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

³⁷Now the saying, ‘One is the sower and another the reaper,’ is true in this:

³⁸I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labors.”

³⁹Now many of the Samaritans from that city believed into Him because of the word of the woman, testifying that “He told me everything I ever did!”

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to Him they urged Him to stay with them; and He did stay there two days.

⁴¹Many more believed through His own word,

⁴²and they kept saying to the woman, “It is not just because of what you said that we believe, because we ourselves have heard Him, and we know that this One is truly the Messiah, the Savior of the world!”

⁴³So after the two days He departed from there and went on into Galilee.

⁴⁴(For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet does not have honor in his own country.)

⁴⁵So when He came into Galilee the Galileans welcomed Him, having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem, at the festival; for they too had gone to the festival.