John 4:35
33 So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?”
34 Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
36 Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
37 For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
- KJV
- Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
- WEB
- Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
- ASV
- Say not ye, There are yet four months, and [then] cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.
- DARBY
- Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.
- BLB
- Do you⁺ not say, ‘It is yet four months and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you⁺, lift up your⁺ eyes and look at the fields, because they are white to harvest already.
- ÅB
- Sier ikke dere at det enda er fire måneder, så kommer høsten? Se, jeg sier dere: Løft deres øyne og se markene, de er alt hvite til høsten!
- OTB
- Sier dere ikke: ‘Det er ennå fire måneder til høsten’? Jeg sier dere: Løft blikket og se på markene! De er modne for høst.
- B1930
- Sier ikke I at det ennu er fire måneder, så kommer høsten? Se, jeg sier eder: Løft eders øine og se markene, de er alt hvite til høsten!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 10:2–3
And He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.
Read in contextMatthew 9:37–38
Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
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