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- Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
- Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
- "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"
- They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
- Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."
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- But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."
- Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?"
- "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
- Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
- Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
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- Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true.
- I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."
- Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."
- So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.
- And because of his words many more became believers.
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- They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."
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