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35 Don’t you say,[a] ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up[b] and see that the fields are already white[c] for harvest! 36 The one who reaps receives pay[d] and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. 37 For in this instance the saying is true,[e] ‘One sows and another reaps.’

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Footnotes

  1. John 4:35 tn The recitative ὅτι (hoti) after λέγετε (legete) has not been translated.
  2. John 4:35 tn Grk “lift up your eyes” (an idiom). BDAG 357 s.v. ἐπαίρω 1 has “look up” here.
  3. John 4:35 tn That is, “ripe.”
  4. John 4:36 tn Or “a reward”; see L&N 38.14 and 57.173. This is something of a wordplay.
  5. John 4:37 tn The recitative ὅτι (hoti) after ἀληθινός (alēthinos) has not been translated.