John 4:27-38 - The Disciples And The Harvest
27 Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, "What is your wish?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
28 The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town, and called the people. 29 "Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?" 30 They left the town and set out to go to Him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something."
32 "I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do not know."
33 So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"
34 "My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work. 35 Do you not say, 'It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle. 36 The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together. 37 For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, 'The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.' 38 I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours."