John 4:28-42

28Then the woman left her water jar and went back into the city. She told the people,

29“Come with me, and meet a man who told me everything I’ve ever done. Could he be the Messiah?”

30The people left the city and went to meet Jesus.

31Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, have something to eat.”

32Jesus told them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

33The disciples asked each other, “Did someone bring him something to eat?”

34Jesus told them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do and to finish the work he has given me.

35“Don’t you say, ‘In four more months the harvest will be here’? I’m telling you to look and see that the fields are ready to be harvested.

36The person who harvests the crop is already getting paid. He is gathering grain for eternal life. So the person who plants the grain and the person who harvests it are happy together.

37In this respect the saying is true: ‘One person plants, and another person harvests.’

38I have sent you to harvest a crop you have not worked for. Other people have done the hard work, and you have followed them in their work.”

39Many Samaritans in that city believed in Jesus because of the woman who said, “He told me everything I’ve ever done.”

40So when the Samaritans went to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them. He stayed in Samaria for two days.

41Many more Samaritans believed because of what Jesus said.

42They told the woman, “Our faith is no longer based on what you’ve said. We have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the savior of the world.”