The Disciples Rejoin Jesus

     1 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

   2 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 

    3 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”

    4 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

   5 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

   6 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

    7  Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”

                      

     8 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

   9  Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.

 10  I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”



                                    Praise The Lord