John 4:35 BSB — MannaFest

John 4:35

Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book IV, Chapter XXIII (202)

For which reason the Lord declared to the disciples: "Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look upon the districts (regiones), for they are white [already] to harvest. For the harvest-man receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal, that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. For in this is the saying true, that one soweth and another reapeth. For I have sent you forward to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour; other men have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Say not ye, there are yet four months,.... Our Lord had been in Jerusalem and Judea, about eight months from the last passover, and there remained four more to the next passover: and then cometh harvest? barley harvest, which began at that time. Now as the passover was in the middle of the month Nisan, which was about the latter end of our March; reckoning four months back from thence shows, that it was about the latter end of our November, or beginning of December, that Christ was in Samaria, and at Jacob's well.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

The fields are white already - As if he had said, The spiritual harvest is ripe already. The Samaritans, ripe for the Gospel, covered the ground round about them.

The Nineteenth Century4 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Say not ye - This seems to have been a proverb. Ye say - that is, men say. Four months and ... - The common time from sowing the seed to the harvest, in Judea, was about “four months.” The meaning of this passage may be thus expressed: “The husbandman, when he sows his seed, is compelled to wait a considerable period before it produces a crop. He is encouraged in sowing it; he expects fruit; his labor is lightened by that expectation; but it is not “immediate” - it is remote. But it is not so with my preaching.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

(1869)

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Original language & word study

28 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οὐχ	ouch	Surely	G3756 →
ὑμεῖς	humeis	you yourselves	G4771 →
λέγετε	legete	say	G3004 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ἔτι	eti	yet	G2089 →
τετράμηνός	tetramēnos	four months	G5072 →
ἐστιν	estin	it is	G1510 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
θερισμὸς	therismos	harvest	G2326 →
ἔρχεται;	erchetai	comes?	G2064 →
ἰδοὺ	idou	Behold	G2400 →
λέγω	legō	I say	G3004 →
ὑμῖν·	humin	to you;	G4771 →
ἐπάρατε	eparate	do lift up	G1869 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
ὀφθαλμοὺς	ophthalmous	eyes	G3788 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
θεάσασθε	theasasthe	do see	G2300 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
χώρας	chōras	fields	G5561 →
ὅτι	hoti	because	G3754 →
λευκαί	leukai	white	G3022 →
εἰσιν	eisin	they are	G1510 →
πρὸς	pros	toward	G4314 →
θερισμόν	therismon	harvest	G2326 →
ἤδη.	ēdē	already!	G2235 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 4:30
So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus.
leads to
- Acts 10:33
  So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has instructed you to…
- Acts 8:5–8
  Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.
- Matthew 20:16
  So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
- Luke 17:16–18
  He fell facedown at Jesus’ feet in thanksgiving to Him—and he was a Samaritan.
- Romans 5:20
  The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About John

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About John