John 4:38
Good News Translation
I have sent you to reap a harvest in a field where you did not work; others worked there, and you profit from their work."

New Revised Standard Version
I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

Contemporary English Version
I am sending you to harvest crops in fields where others have done all the hard work.

New American Bible
I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the work, and you are sharing the fruits of their work.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours.

sent.

Acts 2:41 They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

Acts 4:4,32 But many of them who had heard the word believed: and the number of the men was made five thousand. . . .

Acts 5:14 And the multitude of men and women who believed in the Lord was more increased:

Acts 6:7 And the word of the Lord increased: and the number of the disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great multitude also of the priests obeyed the faith.

Acts 8:4-8,14-17 They therefore that were dispersed went about preaching the word of God. . . .

other.

John 1:7 This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that all men might believe through him.

2 Chronicles 36:15 And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place.

Jeremiah 44:4 And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate.

Matthew 3:1-6 And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea. . . .

Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and healing all manner of sickness and every infirmity, among the people.

Matthew 11:8-13 But what went you out to see? a man clothed in soft garments? Behold they that are clothed in soft garments, are in the houses of kings. . . .

Acts 10:37,38,42,43 You know the word which hath been published through all Judea: for it began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached. . . .

1 Peter 1:11,12 Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signify, when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ and the glories that should follow. . . .

Context
The Disciples Return and Marvel
37For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth. 38I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours. 39Now 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.…
Cross References
John 4:37
For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

John 4:39
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.

John 17:18
As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

2 Corinthians 10:15
Not glorying beyond measure in other men's labours: but having hope of your increasing faith, to be magnified in you according to our rule abundantly.

John 4:37
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