32. Jesus told them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
33. The disciples asked each other, “Did someone bring him something to eat?”
34. Jesus told them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do and to finish the work he has given me.
35. “Don’t you say, ‘In four more months the harvest will be here’? I’m telling you to look and see that the fields are ready to be harvested.
36. The person who harvests the crop is already getting paid. He is gathering grain for eternal life. So the person who plants the grain and the person who harvests it are happy together.
37. In this respect the saying is true: ‘One person plants, and another person harvests.’
38. I have sent you to harvest a crop you have not worked for. Other people have done the hard work, and you have followed them in their work.”
39. Many Samaritans in that city believed in Jesus because of the woman who said, “He told me everything I’ve ever done.”
40. So when the Samaritans went to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them. He stayed in Samaria for two days.
41. Many more Samaritans believed because of what Jesus said.
42. They told the woman, “Our faith is no longer based on what you’ve said. We have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the savior of the world.”
43. After spending two days in Samaria, Jesus left for Galilee.
44. Jesus had said that a prophet is not honored in his own country.
45. But when Jesus arrived in Galilee, the people of Galilee welcomed him. They had seen everything he had done at the festival in Jerusalem, since they, too, had attended the festival.
46. Jesus returned to the city of Cana in Galilee, where he had changed water into wine. A government official was in Cana. His son was sick in Capernaum.