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I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. <a href="/nlt/john/4.htm">New Living Translation</a> You know the saying, ‘Four months between planting and harvest.’ But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest. <a href="/esv/john/4.htm">English Standard Version</a> Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. <a href="/bsb/john/4.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> 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. <a href="/blb/john/4.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> Do you not say that it is yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, because they are already white toward harvest! <a href="/kjv/john/4.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/john/4.htm">New King James Version</a> Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! <a href="/nasb_/john/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, raise your eyes and observe the fields, that they are white for harvest. <a href="/nasb/john/4.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Do you not say, &#8216There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest &#8216? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. <a href="/nasb77/john/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “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. <a href="/lsb/john/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> 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. <a href="/amp/john/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Do you not say, ‘It is still four months until the harvest comes?’ Look, I say to you, raise your eyes and look at the fields and see, they are white for harvest. <a href="/csb/john/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> “Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready for harvest. <a href="/hcsb/john/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> &#8220Don&#8217t you say, There are still four more months, then comes the harvest? Listen to what I&#8217m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest. <a href="/asv/john/4.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/cev/john/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> You may say there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest. <a href="/erv/john/4.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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. <a href="/gwt/john/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "Don't you say, 'In four more months the harvest will be here'? I'm telling you to look and see that the fields are ready to be harvested. <a href="/gnt/john/4.htm">Good News Translation</a> You have a saying, 'Four more months and then the harvest.' But I tell you, take a good look at the fields; the crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested! <a href="/isv/john/4.htm">International Standard Version</a> You say, don't you, 'In four more months the harvest will begin?' Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready for harvesting now! <a href="/msb/john/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> 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. <a href="/net/john/4.htm">NET Bible</a> Don't you say, 'There are four more months and then comes the harvest?' I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest! <a href="/nheb/john/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Do you not say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, that they are white for harvest already. <a href="/wbt/john/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. <a href="/wey/john/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> Do you not say, 'It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle. <a href="/web/john/4.htm">World English Bible</a> 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. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/john/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest comes; behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white to harvest already. <a href="/blb/john/4.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> Do you not say that it is yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, because they are already white toward harvest! <a href="/ylt/john/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 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. <a href="/slt/john/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Say ye not, That there is yet the fourth month, and harvest comes? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and behold the countries; for they are already white for harvest.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/john/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries; for they are white already to harvest. <a href="/cpdv/john/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then the harvest arrives?’ Behold, I say to you: Lift up your eyes and look at the countryside; for it is already ripe for the harvest. <a href="/nabre/john/4.htm">New American Bible</a> Do you not say, ‘In four months the harvest will be here’? I tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest. <a href="/nrsvce/john/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/john/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Do you not say that after four months comes the harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, which have turned white and have long been ready for the harvest. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/john/4.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> Do you not say, 'After four months the harvest comes?' Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and behold the fields that are white and are ready to harvest even now.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/john/4.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> Do you not say, There are yet four months, and harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, for they are already white for the harvest. <a href="/godbey/john/4.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> <FR>Do you not say, That it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and see the fields, because they are white unto the harvest<Fr> <a href="/haweis/john/4.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> Do ye not say, That yet there are four months, and then the harvest cometh? behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look upon the fields; for they are now white for harvest. <a href="/mace/john/4.htm">Mace New Testament</a> is it not a common saying, "t'other four months, and then comes harvest?" lift up your eyes now, I say, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. <a href="/wey/john/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> Do you not say, 'It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle. <a href="/worrell/john/4.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> <FR>Say not ye, 'There are yet four months, and the harvest is coming?' Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and view the fields, because they are white for harvest.<Fr> <a href="/worsley/john/4.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> <FR>Do not ye say, it is yet four months, and <Fr>then<FR> cometh harvest? Behold, lift up your eyes, and see the fields, they are already white for harvest.<Fr> <a href="/parallel/john/4-35.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ixy2bchmXZ0?start=1167" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/john/4.htm">The Disciples Return and Marvel</a> …34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. 35<a href="/greek/4771.htm" title="4771: hymeis (PPro-N2P) -- You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.">Do you</a> <a href="/greek/3756.htm" title="3756: ouch (Adv) -- No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.">not</a> <a href="/greek/3004.htm" title="3004: legete (V-PIA-2P) -- (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command. ">say,</a> <a href="/greek/3754.htm" title="3754: hoti (Conj) -- Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because."></a> <a href="/greek/1510.htm" title="1510: estin (V-PIA-3S) -- I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.">‘There are</a> <a href="/greek/2089.htm" title="2089: Eti (Adv) -- (a) of time: still, yet, even now, (b) of degree: even, further, more, in addition. Perhaps akin to etos; yet, still.">still</a> <a href="/greek/5072.htm" title="5072: tetramēnos (Adj-NMS) -- Of four months, a period of four months. Neuter of a compound of tessares and men; a four months' space.">four months</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">until</a> <a href="/greek/2064.htm" title="2064: erchetai (V-PIM/P-3S) -- To come, go. "></a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ho (Art-NMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/2326.htm" title="2326: therismos (N-NMS) -- Reaping, harvest; met: the harvest, crop. From therizo; reaping, i.e. The crop.">harvest’?</a> <a href="/greek/2400.htm" title="2400: idou (V-AMA-2S) -- See! Lo! Behold! Look! Second person singular imperative middle voice of eido; used as imperative lo!"></a> <a href="/greek/3004.htm" title="3004: legō (V-PIA-1S) -- (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command. ">I tell</a> <a href="/greek/4771.htm" title="4771: hymin (PPro-D2P) -- You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.">you,</a> <a href="/greek/1869.htm" title="1869: eparate (V-AMA-2P) -- To raise, lift up. From epi and airo; to raise up.">lift up</a> <a href="/greek/4771.htm" title="4771: hymōn (PPro-G2P) -- You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.">your</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tous (Art-AMP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/3788.htm" title="3788: ophthalmous (N-AMP) -- The eye; fig: the mind's eye. From optanomai; the eye; by implication, vision; figuratively, envy.">eyes</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/2300.htm" title="2300: theasasthe (V-AMM-2P) -- A prolonged form of a primary verb; to look closely at, i.e. perceive; by extension to visit.">look at</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tas (Art-AFP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/5561.htm" title="5561: chōras (N-AFP) -- Feminine of a derivative of the base of chasma through the idea of empty expanse; room, i.e. A space of territory.">fields,</a> <a href="/greek/3754.htm" title="3754: hoti (Conj) -- Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.">for</a> <a href="/greek/1510.htm" title="1510: eisin (V-PIA-3P) -- I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.">they are</a> <a href="/greek/2235.htm" title="2235: ēdē (Adv) -- Already; now at length, now after all this waiting. Apparently from e and de; even now."></a> <a href="/greek/3022.htm" title="3022: leukai (Adj-NFP) -- White, bright, brilliant. From luke; white.">ripe</a> <a href="/greek/4314.htm" title="4314: pros (Prep) -- To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.">for</a> <a href="/greek/2326.htm" title="2326: therismon (N-AMS) -- Reaping, harvest; met: the harvest, crop. From therizo; reaping, i.e. The crop.">harvest. </a> 36Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/matthew/9-37.htm">Matthew 9:37-38</a> Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. / Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.” <a href="/luke/10-2.htm">Luke 10:2</a> And He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest. <a href="/matthew/13-39.htm">Matthew 13:39</a> and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. <a href="/john/9-4.htm">John 9:4</a> While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work. <a href="/galatians/6-9.htm">Galatians 6:9</a> Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. <a href="/2_corinthians/6-2.htm">2 Corinthians 6:2</a> For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation! <a href="/romans/13-11.htm">Romans 13:11</a> And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. <a href="/revelation/14-15.htm">Revelation 14:15</a> Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest, for the crop of the earth is ripe.” <a href="/matthew/24-14.htm">Matthew 24:14</a> And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. <a href="/acts/1-8.htm">Acts 1:8</a> But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” <a href="/isaiah/55-10.htm">Isaiah 55:10-11</a> For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat, / so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it. <a href="/amos/9-13.htm">Amos 9:13</a> “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow. <a href="/joel/3-13.htm">Joel 3:13</a> Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great. <a href="/psalms/126-5.htm">Psalm 126:5-6</a> Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. / He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain. <a href="/isaiah/9-2.htm">Isaiah 9:2</a> The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Say not you, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.for.<a href="/john/4-30.htm">John 4:30</a> Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.<a href="/matthew/9-37.htm">Matthew 9:37,38</a> Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; … <a href="/luke/10-3.htm">Luke 10:3</a> Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/john/4-23.htm">Already</a> <a href="/luke/22-50.htm">Cutting</a> <a href="/luke/24-43.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/luke/16-3.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/luke/19-8.htm">Four</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-20.htm">Grain-Cutting</a> <a href="/luke/20-10.htm">Harvest</a> <a href="/luke/21-28.htm">Lift</a> <a href="/luke/4-26.htm">Months</a> <a href="/luke/14-29.htm">Observe</a> <a href="/john/3-29.htm">Open</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-8.htm">Plains</a> <a href="/mark/4-29.htm">Ripe</a> <a href="/john/1-38.htm">Round</a> <a href="/mark/4-29.htm">Sickle</a> <a href="/luke/17-21.htm">There</a> <a href="/john/4-23.htm">Time</a> <a href="/john/3-8.htm">Wants</a> <a href="/luke/9-29.htm">White</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/john/4-36.htm">Already</a> <a href="/john/4-36.htm">Cutting</a> <a href="/john/6-5.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/acts/4-34.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/john/6-19.htm">Four</a> <a href="/exodus/23-16.htm">Grain-Cutting</a> <a href="/john/4-38.htm">Harvest</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-12.htm">Lift</a> <a href="/john/6-7.htm">Months</a> <a href="/john/12-19.htm">Observe</a> <a href="/john/5-24.htm">Open</a> <a href="/genesis/18-1.htm">Plains</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-20.htm">Ripe</a> <a href="/john/6-5.htm">Round</a> <a href="/revelation/14-14.htm">Sickle</a> <a href="/john/19-42.htm">There</a> <a href="/john/4-40.htm">Time</a> <a href="/john/7-4.htm">Wants</a> <a href="/john/20-11.htm">White</a><div class="vheading2">John 4</div>1. <a href="/john/4-1.htm">Jesus talks with a woman of Samaria, and reveals his identity to her.</a> 27. <a href="/john/4-27.htm">His disciples marvel.</a> 31. <a href="/john/4-31.htm">He declares to them his zeal for God's glory.</a> 39. <a href="/john/4-39.htm">Many Samaritans believe on him.</a> 43. <a href="/john/4-43.htm">He departs into Galilee, and heals the ruler's son that lay sick at Capernaum.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/john/4.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/john/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/john/4.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? This phrase reflects a common agricultural saying of the time, indicating the period between sowing and reaping. In the context of ancient Palestine, the agricultural cycle was well understood, with specific times for planting and harvesting. This saying suggests a natural expectation of waiting for the harvest, which Jesus uses to illustrate a spiritual truth. The four-month period may not refer to a specific time of year but rather to the general understanding of the time needed for crops to mature. This sets the stage for Jesus to challenge the disciples' perception of readiness and timing in spiritual matters.I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, Here, Jesus shifts from the physical to the spiritual, urging His disciples to change their perspective. "Lift up your eyes" is a call to awareness and vision beyond the immediate and physical. The fields represent the world and the people ready to receive the Gospel. This phrase emphasizes the urgency and readiness of the spiritual harvest, contrasting with the natural waiting period. It also suggests a divine perspective, encouraging believers to see the world as God sees it, full of potential for spiritual growth and conversion.for they are ripe for harvest. The ripeness of the fields symbolizes the readiness of people to receive the message of Christ. This statement indicates that the time for spiritual harvest is now, not in the distant future. It reflects the immediate opportunity for evangelism and the receptiveness of the Samaritan people, as seen in the surrounding context of <a href="/john/4.htm">John 4</a>, where many Samaritans come to believe in Jesus. This ripeness can also be seen as a fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies about the gathering of nations to God, such as in <a href="/isaiah/49-6.htm">Isaiah 49:6</a>. The urgency of the harvest underscores the need for laborers, as Jesus later emphasizes in <a href="/matthew/9-37.htm">Matthew 9:37-38</a>, calling for workers to gather the spiritual harvest.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jesus_christ.htm">Jesus Christ</a> The central figure in this passage, Jesus is speaking to His disciples, using the metaphor of the harvest to teach them about the urgency and readiness of spiritual work. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_disciples.htm">The Disciples</a> Jesus' followers who are being taught to recognize the immediacy of the spiritual harvest around them. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_samaritan_woman.htm">The Samaritan Woman</a> Although not directly mentioned in this verse, she is a key figure in the preceding context, whose encounter with Jesus leads to the spiritual awakening of her community. 4. <a href="/topical/s/samaria.htm">Samaria</a> The region where this event takes place, significant for its mixed population and historical tensions with the Jews, highlighting the inclusivity of Jesus' message. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_harvest.htm">The Harvest</a> A metaphor for the readiness of people to receive the Gospel, emphasizing the spiritual opportunity present at that moment.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/urgency_of_the_gospel.htm">Urgency of the Gospel</a> Jesus emphasizes the immediacy of the spiritual harvest, urging believers to recognize and act upon the opportunities to share the Gospel. <a href="/topical/s/spiritual_awareness.htm">Spiritual Awareness</a> "Lift up your eyes" calls for spiritual discernment to see beyond the physical and recognize the spiritual needs around us. <a href="/topical/i/inclusivity_of_the_gospel.htm">Inclusivity of the Gospel</a> The setting in Samaria underscores the universal reach of the Gospel, breaking cultural and ethnic barriers. <a href="/topical/a/active_participation.htm">Active Participation</a> Believers are called to be active laborers in God's field, participating in the work of evangelism and discipleship. <a href="/topical/f/faith_in_god's_timing.htm">Faith in God's Timing</a> Trust in God's perfect timing for the harvest, understanding that He prepares hearts to receive His message.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_john_4.htm">Top 10 Lessons from John 4</a> <a href="/q/what_does_'fields_are_white'_mean.htm">What did Jesus mean by "fields are white for harvest"?</a> <a href="/q/what_shows_jesus_as_god's_beloved_son.htm">What does 'Lord of the harvest' mean?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_'god's_word_is_pure'_mean.htm">What did Jesus mean by 'fields are white for harvest'?</a> <a href="/q/where's_proof_believers_do_greater_works.htm">John 14:12 – Where is the evidence today that believers consistently perform “greater works” than Jesus did?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/john/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(35) Say not ye, There are yet four months.--The emphasis in this verse should be laid upon "ye." It follows immediately out of the contrast between the natural and spiritual food. Every outer fact is the sign of an inner truth. They here, as the woman in <a href="/john/4-11.htm" title="The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where then have you that living water?">John 4:11</a>, as the teacher of Israel (<a href="/john/3-4.htm" title="Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?">John 3:4</a>), as the Jews (<a href="/john/2-20.htm" title="Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?">John 2:20</a>), speak in the language of the outer facts only. He speaks of the spiritual realities. Looking on the fields of springing corn, they would say that in four months there would be harvest. He sees signs of life springing up from seed sown in receptive hearts; and eyes lifted up and directed to the wide fields of the world's nations would see that the fulness of time was come, and that the fields were even now white to harvest. The Samaritans coming to Him are as the firstfruits, the earnest of the abundant sheaves which shall follow.Four months.--This gives us probably a note on time. There is no evidence that it was a proverbial saying, and the form of the sentence is against the supposition. The legal beginning of harvest was fixed (<a href="/leviticus/23-10.htm" title="Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:">Leviticus 23:10</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/16-9.htm" title="Seven weeks shall you number to you: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as you begin to put the sickle to the corn.">Deuteronomy 16:9</a>) for the 16th of Nisan (April). This would give us in that year, which was a Jewish leap-year, with a month added (Wieseler's Synopsis, Eng. Trans., p. 187), some time about the middle of the month Tebeth (January) as the date of this conversation. (Comp. <a href="/john/5-1.htm" title="After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.">John 5:1</a>.) For the idea of the harvest, comp. <a href="/context/matthew/9-36.htm" title="But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.">Matthew 9:36-38</a>, and the parable of the Sower, <a href="/matthew/13-3.htm" title="And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;">Matthew 13:3</a> et seq. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/john/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 35. - Say not ye - has not your talk with one another been, as you have passed through the springing corn, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? This cannot be a proverbial expression for the time which elapses between sowing and harvest, as some (Lucke and Tholuck) have supposed, because, firstly, there is no mention of sowing at all; and secondly, because six months was the customary period between seed time and ingathering; and also because the "say not ye?" would then be inappropriate. I cannot doubt that it was a chronological hint that the time at which Jesus spake was four months from either the barley or wheat harvest. These harvests generally occurred between the middle of March and the middle of April. The time must, therefore, have been either the middle of November or of December. Tristram (Westcott) says the (wheat?) harvest began about the middle of April and lasted till the end of May. This would bring the time forward another month. This makes our Lord to have spent some eight months since the Passover, either in Jerusalem or in the Judaean land, on his earliest mission, which as yet had brought no obvious results. Men had come to his baptism, but had not appreciated or accepted his claims. The faith already awakened had been of the evanescent character, based on "signs," outward not inward, a "milk faith," to which he did not entrust himself (ch, 2:240. Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; they are whitening unto harvest. Our Lord now uses another metaphor - he bids the disciples glance across these rich cornfields, to observe the obvious effect already produced by the sowing of good seed in Samaritan soil. The people are flocking towards him. The harvest of souls is ripening, and it is great. You must wait four months before this springing corn will need the sickle. But I say unto you, The time is come. The kingdom is come. The reaper must prepare for instant service. Again, we have a note of personal identity between the Jesus of the Fourth Gospel and the Author of the parables of the sower and the harvest. The very rapidity with which he passes from the symbolism of water to the symbolism of food, and then to that of seed time and harvest, reminds us of One who "without a parable spake not." The words so far have universal application in every age. The harvest has always been ripening. The word λευκός is used in this place only for the aspect of ripening corn. It has elsewhere the meaning of glittering, translucent whiteness, and perhaps it is used here for "dead ripe." The golden grain in late summer becomes white, and this intensifies the force of the image. It seems to say, "These fields will be sacrificed, these fruits will be wasted, these souls will be lost, unless they are reaped and brought into the heavenly garner." <a href="/commentaries/john/4-35.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>{Do} you ὑμεῖς (hymeis) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4771.htm">Strong's 4771: </a> You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. not οὐχ (ouch) Adverb <a href="/greek/strongs_3756.htm">Strong's 3756: </a> No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not. say, λέγετε (legete) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3004.htm">Strong's 3004: </a> (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command. ‘There are ἐστιν (estin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1510.htm">Strong's 1510: </a> I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. still Ἔτι (Eti) Adverb <a href="/greek/strongs_2089.htm">Strong's 2089: </a> (a) of time: still, yet, even now, (b) of degree: even, further, more, in addition. Perhaps akin to etos; 'yet, ' still. four months τετράμηνός (tetramēnos) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5072.htm">Strong's 5072: </a> Of four months, a period of four months. Neuter of a compound of tessares and men; a four months' space. [until] καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. the ὁ (ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. harvest’? θερισμὸς (therismos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2326.htm">Strong's 2326: </a> Reaping, harvest; met: the harvest, crop. From therizo; reaping, i.e. The crop. I tell λέγω (legō) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3004.htm">Strong's 3004: </a> (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command. you, ὑμῖν (hymin) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4771.htm">Strong's 4771: </a> You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. lift up ἐπάρατε (eparate) Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1869.htm">Strong's 1869: </a> To raise, lift up. From epi and airo; to raise up. your ὑμῶν (hymōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4771.htm">Strong's 4771: </a> You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. eyes ὀφθαλμοὺς (ophthalmous) Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3788.htm">Strong's 3788: </a> The eye; fig: the mind's eye. From optanomai; the eye; by implication, vision; figuratively, envy. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. look at θεάσασθε (theasasthe) Verb - Aorist Imperative Middle - 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2300.htm">Strong's 2300: </a> A prolonged form of a primary verb; to look closely at, i.e. perceive; by extension to visit. the τὰς (tas) Article - Accusative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. fields, χώρας (chōras) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_5561.htm">Strong's 5561: </a> Feminine of a derivative of the base of chasma through the idea of empty expanse; room, i.e. A space of territory. for ὅτι (hoti) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_3754.htm">Strong's 3754: </a> Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because. they are εἰσιν (eisin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1510.htm">Strong's 1510: </a> I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. ripe λευκαί (leukai) Adjective - Nominative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3022.htm">Strong's 3022: </a> White, bright, brilliant. From luke; white. for πρὸς (pros) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_4314.htm">Strong's 4314: </a> To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward. harvest. θερισμόν (therismon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2326.htm">Strong's 2326: </a> Reaping, harvest; met: the harvest, crop. 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