35. When you plant, you always say, ‘Four more months to wait before we gather the grain.’ But I tell you, open your eyes, and look at the fields. They are ready for harvesting now.
36. Even now, the people who harvest the crop are being paid. They are gathering crops for eternal life. So now the people who plant can be happy together with those who harvest.
37. It is true when we say, ‘One person plants, but another person harvests the crop.’
38. I sent you to harvest a crop that you did not work for. Others did the work, and you get the profit from their work.”
39. Many of the Samaritan people in that town believed in Jesus. They believed because of what the woman had told them about him. She had told them, “He told me everything I have ever done.”
40. The Samaritans went to Jesus. They begged him to stay with them. So he stayed there two days.
41. Many more people became believers because of the things he said.
42. The people said to the woman, “First we believed in Jesus because of what you told us. But now we believe because we heard him ourselves. We know now that he really is the one who will save the world.”
43. Two days later Jesus left and went to Galilee.
44. (Jesus had said before that a prophet is not respected in his own country.)
45. When he arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him. They had been at the Passover festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything he did there.
46. Jesus went to visit Cana in Galilee again. Cana is where he had changed the water into wine. One of the king’s important officials lived in the city of Capernaum. This man’s son was sick.