John 4:28-42

28Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the people,

29“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”

30They left the town and made their way to him.

31In the meantime the disciples kept urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

32But he said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

33The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?”

34“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work,” Jesus told them.

35“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready for harvest.

36The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

37For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’

38I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from their labor.”

39Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

40So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

41Many more believed because of what he said.

42And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, since we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world.”