“And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.”
'Thus the saying "One sows and another reaps" is true. — the proverb acknowledges that believers build on prior work; the disciples reap what Jesus (and the prophets) have sown. In salvation history, patriarchs, prophets, and John the Baptist sowed; the disciples reap in the time of Jesus' revelation.
Church Fathers on John 4:37
Say you not, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest?
Now you are expecting a material harvest. But I say to you, that a spiritual harvest is at hand: lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. He alludes to the Samaritans who are approaching.
And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to life eternal, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.
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