The Urgent Call to Harvest

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Just then, his talmidim arrived. They were amazed that he was talking with a woman; but none of them said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”

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So the woman left her water-jar, went back to the town and said to the people there,

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“Come, see a man who told me everything I’ve ever done. Could it be that this is the Messiah?”

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They left the town and began coming toward him.

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Meanwhile, the talmidim were urging Yeshua, “Rabbi, eat something.”

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But he answered, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

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At this, the talmidim asked one another, “Could someone have brought him food?”

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Yeshua said to them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants and to bring his work to completion.

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Don’t you have a saying, ‘Four more months and then the harvest’? Well, what I say to you is: open your eyes and look at the fields! They’re already ripe for harvest!

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The one who reaps receives his wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the reaper and the sower may be glad together —

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for in this matter, the proverb, ‘One sows and another reaps,’ holds true.

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I sent you to reap what you haven’t worked for. Others have done the hard labor, and you have benefited from their work.”

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