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St John 4:32-40 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

32. But he said to them: I have meat to eat, which you know not.

33. The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?

34. Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

35. Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries; for they are white already to harvest.

36. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.

37. For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

38. I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.

39. Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done.

40. So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.

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