John 4:35
Good News Translation
You have a saying, 'Four more months and then the harvest.' But I tell you, take a good look at the fields; the crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested!

New Revised Standard Version
Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting.

Contemporary English Version
You may say there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest.

New American Bible
Do you not say, ‘In four months the harvest will be here’? I tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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John 4:30 They went therefore out of the city and came unto him.

Matthew 9:37,38 Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. . . .

Luke 10:3 Go: Behold I send you as lambs among wolves.

Context
The Disciples Return and Marvel
34Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work. 35Do 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. 36And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.…
Cross References
Isaiah 49:18
Lift up thy eyes round about, and see all these are gathered together, they are come to thee: I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt be clothed with all these as with an ornament, and as a bride thou shalt put them about thee.

Matthew 9:37
Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few.

Matthew 9:38
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.

Luke 10:2
And he said to them: The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he send labourers into his harvest.

John 4:34
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