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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 already to harvest.
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The Harvest is Now
Jesus contrasts the typical four-month wait for an agricultural harvest with the immediate readiness of the spiritual harvest. Commentators like Calvin and Spurgeon see this as a powerful call against procrastination in sharing the gospel. The opportunity for spiritual work is not in a future season; it is urgent and present.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Say not ye. This seems to have been a proverb. You say—that is, people say.
Four months and, etc. The common time from sow…
Say not ye? (Ουχ υμεις λεγετε; ). It is not possible to tell whether Jesus is alluding to a rural proverb of which nothing is know…
19th Century
Anglican
Say not ye, There are yet four months. (John 4:35).—The emphasis in this verse should be placed on “ye.” It f…
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Baptist
Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him tha…
“Four months more and then the harvest” is probably a quotation of a current proverb. Having once sowed the grain, all the farmer needed to do was …
16th Century
Protestant
Do you not say? He develops the preceding statement; for, having said that nothing was more dear to him than to finish the work o…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Say not you, there are yet four months Our Lord had been in Jerusalem and Judea, about eight months from the last pa…
The disciples wondered that Christ talked so with a Samaritan. Yet they knew it was for some good reason and for some good end. So, when particular…
13th Century
Catholic
Since the disciples were slow to understand the Lord’s figure of speech, the Lord now explains it.
First, we have its explanation,…
