John 4:36-49

³⁶He who harvests is already receiving wages, and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that he who plants and he who harvests may rejoice together.

³⁷Thus the saying ‘One plants and another harvests’ is true.

³⁸I sent you to harvest that for which you didn’t labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

³⁹Many Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything that I ever did.”

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans arrived, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

⁴¹Many more believed because of His words.

⁴²They told the woman, “It’s no longer just because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world, the Christ.”

⁴³After the two days, He departed from there and went to Galilee,

⁴⁴for Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

⁴⁵When He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all that He had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they had been there, too.

⁴⁶Therefore He came back to Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water wine. There was a certain royal official, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was at the point of death.

⁴⁸Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”

⁴⁹The royal official said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”