John 4:31-41

³¹Meanwhile Jesus' disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, please eat something!”

³²But Jesus replied, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

³³“Did someone bring him food?” the disciples asked one another.

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

³⁵Don't you have a saying, ‘four more months until harvest?’ Open your eyes and look around! The crops in the fields are ripe, ready for harvest.

³⁶The reaper is being paid and harvesting a crop for eternal life so that both the sower and the reaper can celebrate.

³⁷So the proverb ‘one sows, another reaps,’ is true.

³⁸I sent you to reap what you didn't work for. Others did the hard work and you have reaped the benefits of what they did.”

³⁹Many Samaritans from that town trusted in him because of what the woman said: “He told me everything I ever did.”

⁴⁰So when they came to see him they pleaded with him to stay with them. He stayed for two days,

⁴¹and because of what he told them many more trusted in him.