John 4:35-38

4:35 Don’t you say, ¹  ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up ²  and see that the fields are already white ³  for harvest! 4:36 The one who reaps receives pay ⁴  and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. 4:37 For in this instance the saying is true, ⁵  ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 4:38 I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

[4:35]  ¹ tn The recitative ὅτι (Joti) after λέγετε (legete) has not been translated.

[4:35]  ² tn Grk “lift up your eyes” (an idiom). BDAG 357 s.v. ἐπαίρω 1 has “look up” here.

[4:35]  ³ tn That is, “ripe.”

[4:36]  ⁴ tn Or “a reward”; see L&N 38.14 and 57.173. This is something of a wordplay.

[4:37]  ⁵ tn The recitative ὅτι (Joti) after ἀληθινός (alhqino") has not been translated.