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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 4:31-42
  by J.C. Ryle
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Workers for the Harvest

Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something." But he
said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." So the
disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him anything to
eat, did they?" Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the
one who sent me and to complete his work. Don’t you say, ‘There are
four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up and
see that the fields are already white for harvest! The one who reaps
receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who
sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. For in this instance
the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap
what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into
their labor."

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report
of the woman who testified, "He told me everything I ever did." So when
the Samaritans came to him, they started asking him to stay with them.
He stayed there two days, and because of his word many more believed.
They said to the woman, "No longer do we believe because of your words,
for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the
Savior of the world."

We have, for one thing, in these verses, an instructive pattern of zeal
for the good of others. We read, that our Lord Jesus Christ declares,
"My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work."
To do good was not merely duty and pleasure to Him. He counted it as His
food and drink. Job, one of the holiest Old Testament saints, could say,
that he esteemed God\

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/jc-ryle/expository-thoughts-on-john-john-431-42/
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