KJV King James Version
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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John 4:35
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.
Surrounding context — John 4
32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him [ought] to eat?
34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
35 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.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
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οὐχG3756 · ounoὑμεῖςG4771 · suyouλέγετεG3004 · legōto sayὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatἔτιG2089 · etistillτετράμηνόςG5072 · tetramēnosfour monthsἐστινG1510 · eimito beκαὶG2532 · kaiandὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoθερισμὸςG2326 · therismosharvestἔρχεται;G2064 · erchomaito come/goἰδοὺG2400 · idoulook!λέγωG3004 · legōto sayὑμῖν·G4771 · suyouἐπάρατεG1869 · epairōto lift upτοὺςG3588 · hothe/this/whoὀφθαλμοὺςG3788 · ophthalmoseyeὑμῶνG4771 · suyouκαὶG2532 · kaiandθεάσασθεG2300 · theaomaito look atτὰςG3588 · hothe/this/whoχώραςG5561 · chōracountryὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatλευκαίG3022 · leukoswhiteεἰσινG1510 · eimito beπρὸςG4314 · prosto/withθερισμόνG2326 · therismosharvestἤδη.G2235 · ēdēalready
Cross-references
Luke 10:2-3Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly [is] great, but the labourers [are] few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.Matthew 9:37-38Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly [is] plenteous, but the labourers [are] few;John 4:30Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
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