John 4:27-38

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

²⁷ Just then _i his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you seek?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" ²⁸ So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, ²⁹ "Come, see a man _j who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?" ³⁰ They went out of the town and were coming to him.

³¹ Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, _k "Rabbi, eat." ³² But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." ³³ So the disciples said to one another, _l "Has anyone brought him something to eat?" ³⁴ Jesus said to them, _m "My food is _n to do the will of him who sent me and _o to accomplish his work. ³⁵ Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that _p the fields are white for harvest. ³⁶ Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that _q sower and _r reaper _s may rejoice together. ³⁷ For here the saying holds true, _t 'One sows and another reaps.' ³⁸ I sent you to reap _u that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, _v and you have entered into their labor."

1. Cross References
   John 4:8
   (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)
   
2. Cross References
   John 4:17 - 18
   The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'.
   John 4:25
   The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.
   
3. Cross References
   John 1:38
   Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, "What are you seeking?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?
   
4. Cross References
   John 4:11
   The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?
   John 4:15
   The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.
   John 3:4
   Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?
   John 6:34
   They said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always.
   John 6:52
   The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
   
5. Cross References
   Job 23:12
   I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
   
6. Cross References
   John 5:30
   I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
   John 6:38
   For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
   John 14:31
   But I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
   
7. Cross References
   John 5:36
   But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
   John 17:4
   I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
   
8. Cross References
   Matthew 9:37
   Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
   Luke 10:2
   And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
   John 4:25
   The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.
   John 4:30
   They went out of the town and were coming to him.
   
9. Cross References
   Matthew 13:37
   He answered, "The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
   Mark 4:14
   The sower sows the word.
   
10. Cross References
    John 4:38
    I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.
    
11. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:3
    You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
    Amos 9:13
    Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord, "when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.
    
12. Cross References
    Job 31:8
    Then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out.
    
13. Cross References
    Joshua 24:13
    I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.
    
14. Cross References
    Acts 8:5 - 17
    Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ.
    Acts 8:25
    Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.