John 4:37
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
KJV
ἐν γὰρ τούτῳ ὁ λόγος ἐστὶν ἀληθινός, ὅτι ἄλλος ἐστὶν ὁ σπείρων καὶ ἄλλος ὁ θερίζων.
Greek NT
In hoc enim est verbum verum : quia alius est qui seminat, et alius est qui metit.
Vulgate
For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
ASV
For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θερίζω
therizo
verb · 21×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λόγος
logos
noun · 330×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
σπείρω
speiro
verb · 53×
ἀληθινός
alethinos
adjective · 28×
ἄλλος
allos
adjective · 154×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: ἐστὶν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐστὶν | RP: + ὁ
- ἐστὶν — SBLGNT
- ἐστὶν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ὁ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Both covenants were prefigured in Abraham, and in the labour of Tamar; there was, however, but one and the same God to each covenant. 1. For thus it had behooved the sons of Abraham [to be], whom God has raised up to him from the stones, Matthew 3:9 and caused to take a place beside him who was made the chief and the forerunner of our faith (who did also receive the covenant of…
2. But wherefore does He still go on, when the others have withdrawn, to speak to these also in parables? They had become wiser by His sayings, so as even to understand. At any rate, to them He says afterwards, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto Him, Yea, Lord. So completely, together with its other objects, did the parable effect this too, that it made them mor…