34. “My food,” Jesus said to them, “is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do.
35. You have a saying, ‘Four more months and then the harvest.’ But I tell you, take a good look at the fields; the crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested!
36. The one who reaps the harvest is being paid and gathers the crops for eternal life; so another who sows and the one who reaps will be glad together.
37. The saying is true, ‘One sows, another reaps.’
38. 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.”
39. Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I have ever done.”
40. So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them, and Jesus stayed there two days.
41. Many more believed because of his message,
42. and they said to the woman, “We believe now, not because of what you said, but because we ourselves have heard him, and we know that he really is the Saviour of the world.”
43. After spending two days there, Jesus left and went to Galilee.
44. For he himself had said, “A prophet is not respected in his own country.”
45. When he arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the Passover Festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything that he had done during the festival.
46. Then Jesus went back to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. A government official was there whose son was ill in Capernaum.
47. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to go to Capernaum and heal his son, who was about to die.