35. You say, ‘Four more months to wait before we gather the grain.’ But I tell you, open your eyes. Look at the fields that are ready for harvesting now.
36. Even now, the one who harvests the crop is being paid. He is gathering crops for eternal life. So now the one who plants can be happy along with the one who harvests.
37. It is true when we say, ‘One person plants, but another 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 Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus. They believed because of what the woman said: “He told me everything I have ever done.”
40. The Samaritans came to Jesus and begged him to stay with them. So he stayed there two days.
41. Many more believed because of the things he said.
42. They 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 that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
43. Two days later, Jesus left and went to Galilee.