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

²⁷ Just then his disciples came up, and were astonished that he was talking with a woman; yet not one of them asked him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

²⁸ Then the woman left her water-jar, and went away into the city and began saying to the people. ²⁹ "Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?" ³⁰ They left the city and set out to go to him.

³¹ Meanwhile the disciples kept urging him.

³² "Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing."

³³ So the disciples began to say to one another, "Can any one have brought him something to eat?"

³⁴ Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. ³⁵ Do you not say, 'It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest. ³⁶ The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. ³⁷ For in this respect the saying is true, 'One sows, another reaps.' ³⁸ I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil."