John 4:35-44

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.

⁴²They said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is indeed the savior of the world.”

⁴³After those two days, he departed from there for Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus himself declared that a prophet has no honor in his own country.