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John 4:37
For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.
John 4:37 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
John 4:37 in other translations
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’
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In context
34 Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.
35 Do not you say: There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries. For they are white already to harvest.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37 For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.
38 I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours.
39 Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done.
40 So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.
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