41 And many more believed because of His own ( K)word.Ĥ2 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for ( L)we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world. The ripeness, or readiness of that (spiritual) crop for harvesting.
37 For in this the saying is true: ( H) ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored ( I) others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.” The Savior of the Worldģ9 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him ( J)because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them and He stayed there two days. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes ( D) the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, ( E) for they are already white for harvest! 36 ( F) And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that ( G) both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. Could this be the Christ?” 30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.ģ1 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”ģ2 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”ģ3 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”ģ4 Jesus said to them, ( B) “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to ( C) finish His work. Returning from town with Jesus’s lunch, the disciples were shocked to find him engrossed in deep conversation with not only. Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. When Jesus said the fields were white for harvest He was speaking of a spiritual harvest. We must learn to believe with Paul: Indeed, the ‘right time’ is now. This helps to date the episode in John 4 to December or January, depending on whether the crop was barley or wheat. In May the fields would be white unto harvest. The phrase fields are white for harvest is a metaphor used by Jesus in John 4:35 to convey the idea that the time for evangelism and spreading the Gospel. Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR.
27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”Ģ8 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 “Come, see a Man ( A)who told me all things that I ever did. Wheat harvesting begins six weeks later in late May or early June. Parham and the Missionary Origins of Pentecostalism.
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