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At that point the disciples came back, and they were surprised to see him talking to a woman but not one of them said to him, What is your purpose? or, Why are you talking to her?

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Then the woman put down her water-pot and went into the town, and said to the people,

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Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?

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So they went out of the town and came to him.

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While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food.

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But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.

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So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

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Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

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You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields they are even now white for cutting.

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He who does the cutting now has his reward he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

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In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

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I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.