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Joh 4:36. Καί) and now accordingly. The time of the New Testament is the harvest.-ὁ θερίζων, he who reapeth) The harvest itself follows at a very brief interval the whitening of the fields.-μισθόν, reward [wages]) namely, the fruit itself: great compensation for one’s trouble, great gain: Mat 18:15, “If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.”-λαμβάνει, receiveth) already, at the present time.-καροπόν, fruit) many souls.-ὁ σπείρων, the sower) The sowing in Israel drew after it a harvest in Judea, in Samaria, and over the whole earth.-ὁμοῦ, together) in the same life eternal: not the one without the other: Heb 11:40, “God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.”