38. I sent you to harvest where you didn’t plant; others had already done the work, and now you will get to gather the harvest.”
39. Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I ever did!”
40. When they came out to see him, they begged him to stay in their village. So he stayed for two days,
41. long enough for many more to hear his message and believe.
42. Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not just because of what you told us, but because we have heard him ourselves. Now we know that he is indeed the Savior of the world.”
43. At the end of the two days, Jesus went on to Galilee.
44. He himself had said that a prophet is not honored in his own hometown.
45. Yet the Galileans welcomed him, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen everything he did there.