John 4:35-43

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.

⁴²They said to the woman, “Now our trust in him isn't just because of what you told us but because we have heard him for ourselves. We're convinced that he really is the Savior of the world.”

⁴³After the two days he continued on to Galilee.