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45John 7;37 Lev. 23:36; Num. 29:35; Neh. 8:18On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, Isa. 55:1; See ch. 4:14“If anyone thirsts, let him See ch. 6:35come to me and drink. 38Whoever believes in me, [Isa. 12:3; Ezek. 47:1]as7:38 Or let him come to me, and let him who believes in me drink. As the Scripture has said, ch. 4:14; [Prov. 18:4]‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of See ch. 4:10living water.’” 39Now Isa. 44:3; [1 Cor. 12:13; Gal. 3:14]this he said about the Spirit, Acts 2:16-18; [ch. 1:33; 20:22; Luke 24:49]whom those who believed in him were to receive, Acts 2:4, 33for as yet the Spirit had not been ch. 3:34; Luke 11:13given, ch. 14:16, 17; 16:7because Jesus was not yet glorified…..


31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, 6:34, 52]“Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, [Job 23:12]“My food is 5:30; 6:38; 14:31to do the will of him who sent me and ch. 5:36; 17:4to accomplish his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that Matt. 9:37; Luke 10:2;the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that [Matt. 13:37; Mark 4:14]sower and ver. 38reaper Isa. 9:3; [Amos 9:13]may rejoice together. 37For here the saying holds true, [Job 31:8]‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap Josh. 24:13that for which you did not labour. Others have laboured, [Acts 8:5-17, 25]and you have entered into their labour.”

The prior verses are meant to be both comforting and challenging to Christians. In a physical field, it is not uncommon for one person to plant the seeds, while another eventually harvests the finished goods. Harvest is a time of joy, and so the work of the harvester tends to get more glory. And yet, both are required in order for the crops to be brought in.

Jesus has made a comparison between fields ready for harvest and the approaching crowd of Samaritans (John 4:35). These particular men are approaching thanks to the testimony of a Samaritan woman (John 4:29–30). There's good reason to think that these people have heard something of the gospel from others (John 4:25). In other words, this is a field which has been seeded and only needs to be harvested. The disciples didn't teach the Samaritans about the Messiah, and they certainly didn't bring anyone back to meet Jesus.

This is why Jesus reminds them that their task: "reaping" for the sake of heaven, is not something they themselves worked for. Others have done the work to this point, but now the responsibility is on the disciples to finish.
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39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.”
43 After the two days he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honour in his own hometown.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast. John 4:39-45

Jesus Heals an Official’s Son
46So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 47When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” 49The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household. 54This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.