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And upon this came his disciples and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

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So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the people,

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Come, see a man, who told me all things that [ever] I did: can this be the Christ?

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They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

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In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

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But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not.

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The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him [aught] to eat?

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Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

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Say not ye, There are yet four months, and [then] cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.

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He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

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For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

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I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.