John 4:27-38 - The Disciples And The Harvest

27 At this point his disciples came up; they were surprised that he was talking to a woman, but none of them said, "What is it?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

28 Then the woman left her water-pot, and going off to the town told the people, 29 "Come here, look at a man who has told me everything I ever did! Can he be the Christ?" 30 They set out from the town on their way to him.

31 Meanwhile the disciples pressed him, saying, "Rabbi, eat something."

32 But he said to them, "I have food, of which you know nothing."

33 So the disciples asked each other, "Can anyone have brought him something to eat?"

34 Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. 35 You have a saying, have you not, 'Four months yet, then harvest'? Look round, I tell you; see, the fields are white for harvesting! 36 The reaper is already getting his wages and harvesting for eternal life, so that the sower shares the reaper's joy. 37 That proverb, 'One sows and another reaps,' holds true here: 38 I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."