Parallel Verses
Twentieth Century New Testament
I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have entered upon the results of their labor."
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own."
A Conservative Version
I sent you to reap what ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.
American Standard Version
I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
I sent you [disciples] to harvest [a crop] that you did not work on; other people have done the work and you have reaped the results of their work." [Note: This is probably an allusion to the preliminary work of preaching done by John, the Immerser, with results occurring under the preaching of the apostles].
Anderson New Testament
I have sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.
Bible in Basic English
I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.
Common New Testament
I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
Daniel Mace New Testament
I sent you to reap where you bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and you are entred into their labours.
Darby Translation
I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.
Godbey New Testament
I have sent you to reap that upon which you have never labored: others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.
Goodspeed New Testament
I have sent you to reap a harvest on which you have not worked. Other men have worked and you have profited by their work."
John Wesley New Testament
I have sent you to reap that whereon ye have bestowed no labour: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labour.
Julia Smith Translation
I sent you to reap that with which ye have not been wearied: some have been wearied, and others have come into their labor.
King James 2000
I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor: other men labored, and you are entered into their labors.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work."
Modern King James verseion
I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Other men labored, and you have entered into their labor.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labor. Other men laboured; And ye are entered into their labors."
Moffatt New Testament
I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."
Montgomery New Testament
I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil."
NET Bible
I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor."
New Heart English Bible
I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
Noyes New Testament
I have sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.
Sawyer New Testament
I have sent you to reap that on which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.
The Emphasized Bible
I, sent you forth, to be reaping that whereon, ye, have not toiled: Others, have toiled, and, ye, into their toil, have entered.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
I have sent you to reap that on which ye have bestowed no labour: others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labour.
Webster
I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye have entered into their labors.
Weymouth New Testament
I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours."
Williams New Testament
I have sent you to reap a harvest which you have not labored to make. Other men have labored, but you have reaped the results of their labors."
World English Bible
I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
Worrell New Testament
I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labor; others have labored, and ye entered into their labor."
Worsley New Testament
in as much as I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labors.
Youngs Literal Translation
I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.
Themes
Awakenings and religious reforms » -hezekiah 2ch 30 » -Christ at samaria
religious Awakenings » -hezekiah 2ch 30 » -Christ at samaria
Converts » Instances of » The samaritans
Jesus Christ » History of » Visits sychar and teaches the samaritan woman
Reaping » Illustrative of » Gathering in souls to God
Samaria » Country of » Jesus travels through
Shechem » Also called sychar, a city of refuge in mount ephraim » Jesus visits; disciples made in
Topics
Interlinear
Hos
Humeis
ὑμείς
Humeis
Usage: 120
Eiserchomai
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 4:38
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Disciples And The Harvest
37 For here the proverb holds good--'One sows, another reaps.' 38 I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have entered upon the results of their labor." 39 Many from that town came to believe in Jesus--Samaritans though they were--on account of the woman's statement--'He has told me everything that I have done.'
Cross References
Acts 8:14-17
When the Apostles at Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had welcomed God's Message, they sent Peter and John to them;
Matthew 3:1-6
About that time John the Baptist first appeared, proclaiming in the Wilderness of Judea:
Matthew 4:23
And Jesus went all through Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people;
Matthew 11:8-13
"What did you go out into the Wilderness to look at? A reed waving in the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man richly dressed? Why, those who wear rich things are to be found in the courts of kings!
John 1:7
He came as a witness--to bear witness to the Light that through him all men might believe.
Acts 2:41
So those who accepted his teaching were baptized, and about three thousand people joined the disciples on that day alone.
Acts 4:4
Many, however, of those who had heard the Apostles' Message became believers in Christ, the number of the men alone amounting to about five thousand.
Acts 4:32
The whole body of those who had become believers in Christ were of one heart and mind. Not one of them claimed any of his goods as his own, but everything was held for the common use.
Acts 5:14
And still larger numbers, both of men and women, as they became believers in the Lord, were added to their number.
Acts 6:7
So God's Message spread, and the number of the disciples continued to increase rapidly in Jerusalem, and a large body of the priests accepted the Faith.
Acts 8:4-8
Now those who were scattered in different directions went from place to place proclaiming the Good News.
Acts 10:37-38
You yourselves know the story which spread through all Judea, how, beginning form Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed--
Acts 10:42-43
Further, God charged us to proclaim to the people, and solemnly affirm, that it is Jesus who has been appointed by God Judge of the living and the dead.
1 Peter 1:11-12
as they strove to discern what that time could be, to which the Spirit of Christ within them was pointing, when foretelling the sufferings that would befall Christ, and the glories that would follow.