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Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, "What do You want?" or "Why are You talking with her?"

Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the men,

"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?"^(ac)

They left the town and made their way to Him.^(ad)

In the meantime the disciples kept urging Him, "Rabbi,^(ae) eat something."

But He said, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."

The disciples said to one another, "Could someone have brought Him something to eat?"

"My food is to do the will of Him^(af) who sent Me^(ag) and to finish His work," ^(ah) Jesus told them.

"Don't you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest'? Listen to what I'm telling you: Open^[j] your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready^[k] for harvest.

The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life,^(ai) so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.'^(aj)

I sent you to reap what you didn't labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from^[l] their labor."

Now many Samaritans^(ak) from that town believed in Him because of what the woman said^[m] when she testified,^(al) "He told me everything I ever did."

Therefore, when the Samaritans came to Him,^(am) they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

Many more believed because of what He said.^[n]

And they told the woman, "We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior^(an) of the world."^[o]