John 4:28-42

28Then the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and began telling the people,

29“Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done! Can this be the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)?”

30So the people left the city and were coming to Him.

31Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus [to have a meal], saying, “Rabbi (Teacher), eat.”

32But He told them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

33So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him something to eat?”

34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to completely finish His work.

35Do you not say, ‘It is still four months until the harvest comes?’ Look, I say to you, raise your eyes and look at the fields and see, they are white for harvest.

36Already the reaper is receiving his wages and he is gathering fruit for eternal life; so that he who plants and he who reaps may rejoice together.

37For in this case the saying is true, ‘One [person] sows and another reaps.’

38I sent you to reap [a crop] for which you have not worked. Others have worked and you have been privileged to reap the results of their work.”

39Now many Samaritans from that city believed in Him and trusted Him [as Savior] because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me all the things that I have done.”

40So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked Him to remain with them; and He stayed there two days.

41Many more believed in Him [with a deep, abiding trust] because of His word [His personal message to them];

42and they told the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; for [now] we have heard Him for ourselves and know [with confident assurance] that this One is truly the Savior of [all] the world.”