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

²⁷ Just then His disciples came up, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman, yet not one of them asked Him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

²⁸ The woman then left her pitcher and went back to town and said to the people, ²⁹ "Come, see a man who has told me everything I ever did. He is not the Christ, is He?" ³⁰ So the people left town and rushed out to see Him.

³¹ Meanwhile the disciples were asking Him, and saying, "Teacher, eat something."

³² But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."

³³ So the disciples began to say to one another, "Nobody has brought Him anything to eat, has he?"

³⁴ Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work. ³⁵ Are you not saying, 'In four months more the harvest comes'? Look! I tell you, lift up your eyes and scan the fields, for they are already white for harvesting. ³⁶ Now the reaper is already getting pay, for he is gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. ³⁷ For in this matter the adage is true, 'One sows, another reaps.' ³⁸ I have sent you to reap a harvest which you have not labored to make. Other men have labored, but you have reaped the results of their labors."