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John 4:38 KJV
John · chapter 4 · verse 38
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.John 4:38 · King James Version
John 4:38 in context
36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
39And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
40So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- bestowedkopiaōto grow weary, tired, exhausted , to labour with wearisome effort, to toil, of bodily…G2872 →
- whereonhoswho, which, what, thatG3739 →
- enteredeiserchomaito go out or come in to enter, of men or animals, as into a house or a city, of Satan…G1525 →
- sentapostellōto order to go to a place appointed, to send away, dismiss, to allow one to depart, that…G649 →
- reaptherizōto reap, harvest, proverbial expression for sowing and reaping, cut off, destroy, as…G2325 →
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We have here the remainder of the story of what happened when Christ was in Samaria, after the long conference he had with the woman. I. The interruption given to this discourse by the disciples' coming. It is probable that much more was said than is recorded;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 27-42