37. For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
38. I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
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 Savior of the world.”
43. After the two days he departed for Galilee.
44. (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)