New Century Version

John 4:37-44 New Century Version (NCV)

37. Here the saying is true, ‘One person plants, and another harvests.’

38. I sent you to harvest a crop that you did not work on. Others did the work, and you get to finish up their work.”

39. Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because of what the woman said: “He told me everything I ever did.”

40. When the Samaritans came to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, so he stayed there two more days.

41. And many more believed because of the things he said.

42. They said to the woman, “First we believed in Jesus because of what you said, 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.

44. (Jesus had said before that a prophet is not respected in his own country.)