John 4:37 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁷ So, the saying is true that one person plants and another harvests [the crop].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ For in this the saying holds true, One sows and another reaps.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

Common English Bible

³⁷ This is a true saying, that one sows and another harvests.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ For in this the word is true: that it is one who sows, and it is another who reaps.

John 4:37 Cross References

Luke 19:21

for I was afraid of you, knowing you are a hard man to deal with and that you pick up [and keep] something you did not lay down [i.e., lose], and you harvest a crop that you did not plant.’

John 14:12

Truly, truly, I tell you, the person who believes in me will perform the deeds that I do also; and he will perform even greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father. [Note: The “greater deeds” are probably evangelizing the world].

John 4:36

Already the person who is harvesting [the crop] is being paid for his work, and is gathering a crop for never ending life, so that the one planting and the one harvesting [the crop] may rejoice together.

John 4:38

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].