John 4:27-42

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁷ Just then his disciples returned and were surprised that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking to her?”

²⁸ Then the woman left her water jar and went back into town. She said to the people, ²⁹ “Come, see the man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” ³⁰ They left the town and came to him.

³¹ Meanwhile, the disciples kept urging him, “Rabbi, eat.”

³² But Jesus said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

³³ Then the disciples said to each other, “Did anyone bring him something to eat?”

³⁴ Jesus told them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. ³⁵ Do you not say, ‘Four more months and the harvest will be here’? Pay attention to what I am telling you. Open your eyes and look at the fields, because they are already^[a] ripe for harvest. ³⁶ The reaper is getting paid and is gathering grain for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. ³⁷ Indeed in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ ³⁸ I sent you to reap a harvest for which you did no hard work. Others have done the hard work, and you have benefitted from their labor.”

³⁹ Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony: “He told me everything I ever did.” ⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days. ⁴¹ Many more believed because of his message. ⁴² They told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said. Now we have heard for ourselves. And we know that this really is the Savior of the world.”