Parallel Bible results for "john 4:27-38"

John 4:27-38

Lexham English Bible LEB

27 And at this [point] his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you seek?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people,

29 "Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Perhaps this one is the Christ?"

30 They went out from the town and were coming to him.

31 In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, "Rabbi, eat [something]!"

32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."

33 So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him [anything] to eat, [did they]?"

34 Jesus said to them, "My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work.

35 Do you not say, 'There are yet four months and the harvest comes'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

36 The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, in order that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

37 For in this [instance] the saying is true, 'It is one who sows and another who reaps.'

38 I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work."

New International Version NIV

27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,

29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”

30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

33 Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”

34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.

37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.

38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”