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John 4:38 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” "

John 4:38

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36 He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

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

38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.”

40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

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Matthew 25:24

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Luke 19:21

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"for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’"

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"Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”"

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John 4:1

"Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John"

John 4:2

"(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),"

John 4:3

"he left Judea and departed into Galilee."

John 4:4

"He needed to pass through Samaria."

John 4:5

"So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph."

John 4:6

"Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour."

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