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John 4:35-45 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

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.”

39. Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.”

40. So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days.

41. And many more believed because of his word,

42. And they were saying to the woman, “No longer because of what you said do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!”

43. And after the two days he departed from there into Galilee.

44. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland.

45. So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had also come to the feast).

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