36. The reaper is already receiving his payment and gathering crops for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together.
37. For here the saying is verified that ‘One sows and another reaps.’
38. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the work, and you are sharing the fruits of their work.”
39. Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I have done.”
40. When the Samaritans came to him, they invited him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days.
41. Many more began to believe in him because of his word,
42. and they said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of your word; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world.”
43. After the two days, he left there for Galilee.
44. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place.
45. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.
46. Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
47. When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death.