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

²⁷ And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, 'What seekest thou?' or 'Why speakest thou with her?'

²⁸ The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men, ²⁹ Come, see a man, who told me all things -- as many as I did; is this the Christ?' ³⁰ They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming unto him.

³¹ And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, 'Rabbi, eat;'

³² and he said to them, 'I have food to eat that ye have not known.'

³³ The disciples then said one to another, 'Did any one bring him anything to eat?'

³⁴ Jesus saith to them, 'My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work; ³⁵ do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already. ³⁶ 'And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together; ³⁷ for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper. ³⁸ I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.