John 4:38 · KJV
“I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.”
— John 4:38
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
John 4 — Context
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
39And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
40So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
Cross References
John 1:7
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all {men} through him might believe.
2 Chronicles 36:15
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: {by: Heb. by the hand of} {betimes: that is, continually and carefully}
Acts 10:42-43
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God {to be} the Judge of quick and dead.
1 Peter 1:11-12
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Acts 10:37-38
That word, {I say}, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
Acts 8:14-17
Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:
Acts 5:14
And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
Acts 4:4
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.