Joh 4:35-38 | TNotes | STEP | 4:35 Four months between planting and harvest: Jesus cited a local parable to contrast the natural harvest with his own. It was harvest time in Samaria, and the fields were ripe . Jesus, however, had planted seed at the well and now was already reaping the harvest of belief among the Samaritans (4:39-42 ).

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‏ John 4:35-38

4:35 ^a Four months between planting and harvest: Jesus cited a local parable to contrast the natural harvest with his own. It was harvest time in Samaria, and the fields were ripe. Jesus, however, had planted seed at the well and now was already reaping the harvest of belief among the Samaritans (4:39-42 ^b).
4:38 ^c others: Jesus might have meant John the Baptist, or he might have been referring to the work he had just done with the Samaritan woman.