For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
then let me sow, and another eat; and let what grows for me be rooted out.
You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father.
He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
For whenever the Israelites put in seed the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up and attack them;