Robertson Word Pictures - John 4:36 - 4:36

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Robertson Word Pictures - John 4:36 - 4:36


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Already he that reapeth receiveth wages (ēdē ho therizōn misthon lambanei). The spiritual harvester can gather his harvest without waiting four months. Jesus is reaping a harvest right now by the conversion of this woman. The labourer is worthy of his hire (Luk 10:7; 2Ti 2:6). John does not use misthos (reward) again, but karpos (Joh 15:2-16), “fruit for life eternal” (cf. Joh 4:14).

That he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together (hina ho speirōn homou chairēi kai ho therizōn). Final use of hina with present active subjunctive of chairō, to rejoice, in the singular with ho speirōn (the sower) and to be repeated with ho therizōn (the reaper). The adverb homou (together) elsewhere in N.T. only Joh 20:4; Joh 21:2; Act 2:1. Usually considerable time passes between the sowing and the reaping as in Joh 4:35. Amos (Amo 9:13) spoke of the time when “the ploughman shall overtake the reaper” and that has happened here with the joy of the harvest time (Isa 9:3). Jesus the Sower and the disciples as the reapers are here rejoicing simultaneously.