John 4:34-38

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

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
   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.
   
2. 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.
   
3. 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.
   
4. 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.
   
5. 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.
   
6. 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.
   
7. 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.
   
8. Cross References
   Job 31:8
   Then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out.
   
9. 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.
   
10. 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.