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1 | Who were the sowers? | John 4:38 | Brent Douglass | 13982 | ||
Who are the others who have labored before in John 4:38, so that the fields are now (at the time Jesus spoke) "white for harvest" (John 4:35)? 35 ""Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. 36 ""Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 ""For in this case the saying is true, " One sows and another reaps.' 38 ""I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.'' |
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2 | Who were the sowers? | John 4:38 | Brent Douglass | 14272 | ||
Thanks for the added commentary, Ray. My question was actually much more narrow. I was referring specifically to the situation in John 4. Jesus was in Samaria, speaking to a specific group of people whom He soon sent out among the Jews and Samaritans. I don't know that the statement in this passage had any reference whatsoever to his later command sending them to the nations. At this point, I think I'm agreed with the view that John 4 is referring to the patriarchs and prophets, leading up through John and including Himself. Your reference to this passage as a parable (in your earlier response) confuses me somewhat. This is historical interaction without stories or parables being told. There may be some double reference to the disciples being sent to get bread that someone else had prepared and the upcoming evangelism among the Jews and Samaritans, but this is not a parable. You kind of lost me when you referred to this exchange as a parable, and I'm not sure we're on the same page right now. Can we backtrack to the current passage again, or were you introducing a new topic? |
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3 | Who were the sowers? | John 4:38 | Ray | 14308 | ||
Hi Brent, I introduced the parable of the sower as a comparison to John 4 and it has confused the issue for the study before you. I made that comparison in response to "the Ultimate Sower" and thus introduced a different slant to your topic. I introduced the thought that Jesus was the sower in the parable just as the woman was in John 4. I'll just give my opinion on John 4 here. I''ll put my support on the side of John 4 talking only about the woman at the well and that is the "case" that is spoken of for verse 37. Thus the "others" of verse 38 are the woman and Jesus. |
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