John 4:38

Easy To Read Version

I sent you to harvest a crop that you did not work for. Other people did the work, and you get the profit from their work.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:15

The Lord, the God of their ancestors, {\cf2\super [454]} sent prophets again and again to warn his people. The Lord did this because he felt sorry for them and for his temple. The Lord didn’t want to destroy them or his temple.

Jeremiah 44:4

I sent my prophets to those people again and again. Those prophets were my servants. Those prophets spoke my message and said to the people, ‘Don’t do this terrible thing. I hate for you to worship idols.’

Matthew 4:23

Jesus went everywhere in the country of Galilee. Jesus taught in the synagogues {\cf2\super [54]} and told the Good News about the kingdom of heaven. And Jesus healed all the people’s diseases and sicknesses.

John 1:7

John came to tell people about the Light (Christ). Through John all people could \{hear about the Light and\} believe.

John 17:18

I have sent them into the world, the same as you sent me into the world.

John 4:37

It is true when we say, ‘One person plants, but another person harvests the crop.’

John 4:39

Many of the Samaritan {\cf2\super [68]} people in that town believed in Jesus. They believed because of what the woman had told them about Jesus. She had told them, “He (Jesus) told me everything I have ever done.”

Acts 2:41

Then those people who accepted (believed) what Peter said were baptized. {\cf2\super [44]} On that day about 3,000 people were added to the group of believers.

Acts 4:32

The group of believers were all the same in their thinking and in what they wanted. No person in the group said that the things he had were his own. Instead, they shared everything.

Acts 4:4

But many of the people that heard Peter and John believed the things they said. There were now about 5,000 men in the group of believers.

Acts 5:14

And more and more people believed in the Lord (Jesus)—many men and women were added to the group of believers.

Acts 6:7

The word of God was reaching more and more people. The group of followers in Jerusalem became larger and larger. Even a big group of Jewish priests believed and obeyed.

2 Corinthians 10:15

We limit our boasting to the work that is ours. We don’t boast in the work other people have done. We hope that your faith will continue to grow. We hope that you will help our work to grow much larger.