Open Your Eyes! Rejoice! God’s Life Giving Harvest is Now! (John 4:4-15, John 4:27-38)
Aëlla Gage, 11th October 2026Part of the Sermon series, preached at a Fordham Sunday Service service
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4:5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
4:6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
4:7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"
4:8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
4:9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. )
4:10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
4:11 "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
4:12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"
4:13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
4:14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
4:15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."
4:28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
4:29 "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ ?"
4:30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
4:31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."
4:32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."
4:33 Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?"
4:34 "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
4:35 Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
4:36 Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
4:37 Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true.
4:38 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."
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