JOHN 4 27-44

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(“I am he” - the Christ/Messiah - Jesus told her.) 27 - And just then his disciples came back. They were surprised to find him talking with a woman, but no one asked, “What does she seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar at the well and went back into town and told the townspeople, 29 “Come! And see a man who told me all about myself! Can this be the Christ?” 30 So they went out of town to the well to see him.

     31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him to eat something. 32 But he said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know of.” 33 So they asked one another, “Has someone brought him something to eat?”

     34 Jesus said, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to complete his work. 35 Don’t say, ‘There are yet four months, until harvest’. Look, I tell you - lift up your eyes - and see that the fields are ripe for harvest.” {He says as the town is coming out to see him. People went for Jesus.. how is it later at his crucifixion/execution the people cried “crucify him!” ..They were worked upon, agitated. That day made easier perhaps because friends of Barabbas were there? Who agitated? Hint, it was way more political than religious/spiritual?}

     36 “Already the one who reaps is receiving wages, and gathering fruit for unfading life {stored in heaven/stored in God} so that sower and reaper will rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One plants and another harvests.’ 38 I sent you to harvest that for which you didn’t labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

     39 Many Samaritans from that town were already believing it was he, because of what the woman had said about him, “He told me all that I ever did!” 40 So they asked him to stay, and he stayed with them for two days. 41 And many more believed because of the things he said. 42 And they said to the woman, “It’s no longer because of what we heard you say, that we believe, but now we have heard him ourselves. And we can see that this is indeed the Savior of the world!”

     43 After the two days he left for Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself had said that a prophet has honor last of all, in his own hometown.

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