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John Phillips · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Phillips says "The point is, the time is now for sowing and reaping. We are to seize our opportunities while we may." (BORROW Exploring the Gospels. John) Seize the Day. Carpe Diem! Tempus Fugit. Time Flies! Steven
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Phillips writes "And a hot, tiresome business it was. But now they were back. They had drawn water from the well. They had spread out their provisions on the wall of the well. They were hungry. They looked inquiringly at the Lord for the blessing. But his mina and heart were far away. He was with that woman even now bursting into the city with her good news. “Master, eat!” they said (4:31)." (BORROW Exploring the Gospels. John) Meanwhile the disciples (mathetes) were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” - The disciples were focused on food, on the physical, the earthly, the needs of the moment. They had no idea that Jesus had just revealed spiritual, heavenly truths that dealt with eternal needs! Were urging is erotao in the imperfect tense picturing the disciples making one request after another for Jesus to take physical sustenance. A T
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Phillips - Any woman who has slaved over the kitchen stove, prepared a delicious meal, called her husband to come and eat—only to be told that he’s not hungry—can empathize with the disciples at this point. But the Lord was never discourteous, never thoughtless of others. His behavior at this point in the story is all of a piece with his divine purpose in this world. He had forgotten his physical thirst in his greater thirst for the Samaritan woman’s soul. Now he forgot his physical hunger in his hunger to reach a lost world. (Exploring the Gospel of John) Rabbi (4461)(rhabbi from Hebrew rab 07227 = great one, master) means my master (most common rendering in KJV) or my teacher. It was an respectful title of honor by which one would address a teacher who was recognized for their expertise in the Mosaic Law or Scriptures. Jesus' disciples repeatedly address Him as Rabbi (Jn. 4:31; Jn. 6:25; Jn. 9:2; Jn. 11:8) The suffix -bi signified "my master" "and was a title of respect by which teachers were addressed. The suffix soon lost its specific force, and in the NT the word is used as courteous title of address." (Vine) It is interesting that in Mt. 23:7-8 Jesus forbade His disciples to desire to use it ("do not be called Rabbi")." (Was Jesus a rabbi?) Rabbi - 15x in 15v - Matt. 23:7; Matt. 23:8; Matt. 26:25; Matt. 26:49; Mk. 9:5; Mk. 11:21; Mk. 14:45; Jn. 1:38; Jn. 1:49; Jn. 3:2; Jn. 3:26; Jn. 4:31; Jn. 6:25; Jn. 9:2; Jn. 11:8. Not found in the Septuagint. Cyril Hocking - John 4:31–38 THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME TO THE DISCIPLES’ credit, they strove to satisfy, not their own curiosity, v. 27, but their Master’s needs, v. 32. Yet He had food to eat of which they knew nothing. And so, just as He had explained to the woman that she needed to drink of water which could not be drawn from Jacob’s well, vv. 13–14, so now He explained to His disciples that He ate of food which could not be obtained from Sychar’s city, vv. 32–34. It was not, of course, that He was exempt from satisfying His hunger with material food (cf. Matt. 4:2) but that He had a spiritual source of sustenance too. As so often, however, the inner meaning of His words was missed; cf. 2:20; 3:4; 4:11; 6:52. His food was, He said, ‘to do the will’ of the One who had sent Him. If Job treasured God’s words more than his necessary food, 23:12, the Lord regarded God’s will as His very food. To Him, God’s will represented not only His mission—‘I came down from heaven … to do … the will of him that sent me’, John 6:38, His goal—‘I seek the will of the Father’, 5:30, and His pleasure—‘I delight to thy will, O my God’, Ps. 40:8, but His nourishment. Here, as on some forty occasions in John’s Gospel alone, the Lord spoke of the Father as the One that had ‘sent’ Him. But He who had Himself been ‘sent’, v. 34, had Himself also ‘sent’ others, v. 37. His words to them were, ‘Lift up your eyes … the fields … are white already to harvest’. Perhaps at that very moment He and his disciples could see the men of Sychar on their way to meet Him, vv. 30, 40. As far as the disciples were concerned, they were only passing through the land of Samaria and could expect no additions for the kingdom from there. Surely, they would have argued, much sowing and long patience would be needed before any ripened grain could be forthcoming. But no, He explained, others (notably Moses and the prophets) had laboured in the past and the harvest (in Sychar at least) was already ripe. Thanks to much faithful sowing, many were expecting Christ’s coming, v. 25, and were very ready to accept Him. Let us lift our eyes to the need, John 4:35, our hands to the work, Heb. 12:12, and our heads to the skies, Luke 21:28. John 4:32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” BGT John 4:32 ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· ἐγὼ βρῶσιν ἔχω φαγεῖν ἣν ὑμεῖς οὐκ οἴδατε. NET John 4:32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." NLT John 4:32 But Jesus replied, "I have a kind of food you know nothing about." ESV John 4:32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." NIV John 4:32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." GNT John 4:32 ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Ἐγὼ βρῶσιν ἔχω φαγεῖν ἣν ὑμεῖς οὐκ οἴδατε. KJV John 4:32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. YLT John 4:32 and he said to them, 'I have food to eat that ye have not known.' ASV John 4:32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. CSB John 4:32 But He said, "I have food to eat that you don't know about." NKJ John 4:32 But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." NRS John 4:32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." NAB John 4:32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." NJB John 4:32 but he said, 'I have food to eat that you do not know about.' GWN John 4:32 Jesus told them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about." I have: Joh 4:34 Job 23:12 Ps 63:5 119:103 Pr 18:20 Isa 53:11 Jer 15:16 Ac 20:35 that: Ps 25:14 Pr 14:10 Rev 2:17 John 4 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries JESUS' SHOCKING REFUSAL OF THEIR MEAL! But - Term of contrast. This sets up the contrast between the disciple's focus on physical food and Jesus' focus on spiritual food! And His words must have totally bewildered the poor disciples as the next verse shows. He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” - There is a strong contrast between "I" and "You" in this passage. The disciples clearly took this literally as their next question indicates. Jesus' statement here is somewhat like a parable and would be very difficult to understand regarding the underlying or spiritual message which Jesus intended. They had been away buying food and had not knowledge of the evangelistic dialogue Jesus had carried out with the Samaritan woman. Clearly Jesus would need to "unpack" this parabolic statement about "food." As
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Phillips - The Lord translated for them; “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work” (Jn 4:34). When Satan, a short time before, had tempted him to turn stones into bread and to satisfy his hunger, Jesus had simply pointed to the word of God: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” He was quoting from Deuteronomy 8:3. That was the principle he lived by. He was hungry above all to do his Father’s will in this world and to finish (teleioo, “accomplish,” “bring to a perfect end”) his work (Jn 4:34). He had just brought to such a perfect end a part of that work in the conversion of the Samaritan woman. The satisfaction that gave him was more real than any ordinary meal could give. This naturally paved the way for a discussion of the disciples and their mission (Jn 4:35–42). The Lord turned their attention to the harvest field of which he had just reaped a token of the firstfruits. (BORROW Exploring the Gospels. John) When the work and the worker are matched, work is nourishment, not punishment. -- Warren Wiersbe John
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Phillips - “Look!” he seems to be saying. “Just moments ago I sowed the seed and here comes the harvest already!” (BORROW Exploring the Gospels. John) On the fields that they are white for harvest (therismos) - What are the fields? In general terms the fields would refer to anywhere there were lost souls. Jesus says these "fields" are ripe or ready for harvesting! And it is likely that as He made this statement, the Samaritans were approaching Jesus, making their way along the paths that separated grain fields. And it is also possible they were arrayed in white robes. And the disciples would soon see many of these Samaritan souls ("white for harvest") come to believe in Jesus and thus be "harvested." As believers in Christ, we are God's fruit, but we are commanded to be His farmers as well. -- M R De Haan Note the two parallels in John 4:32-35 contrasting natural with spiritual - In Jn 4:31 we see natural food and in Jn 4:32 we see spiritual food. Then Jesus shifts metaphors in Jn 4:35a referring to natural fields (of grain) and in Jn 4:35b-38 to spiritual fields (of souls). Clearly using the two metaphorical pictures side by side, Jesus is seeking to teach His disciples the incomparable worth of the heavenly (souls in heaven eternally) over things that are earthly and temporal. To repeat the commands (Behold...lift up...look) His desire is for them (and us) to lift their eyes off the earthly things and to look with rapt attention to heavenly things (in context, the souls of approaching Samaritans). In short, Jesus is teaching His disciples (and us) what I like to call the importance of vertical vision (the things above - heavenly) versus horizontal vision (the things below - earthly). ESV Study Bible has an excellent comment - In the physical realm, there is a period of time between sowing and harvesting. But in the spiritual realm, Jesus’ coming has already ushered in the end-time harvest in which sowing and reaping paradoxically coincide, so that the “crop” of believers is now being gathered into God’s kingdom. (BORROW ESV Study Bible) John Phillips - while waiting for this throng of Samaritans to arrive, he spoke further to his disciples about the joys and rewards of sowing and reaping in the field of the world. He spoke first of the need for reapers (4:35)....If they were ripe then, what must they be now as we stand at the other end of the long dispensation of grace? The sunset burns across the sky. Millions, still untold, lift up their anguished voices to the heavens. The church has dillied and dallied with the great commission, careless, for the most part, of the tragedy of a soul dying in nature’s darkness. The terrible indictment, “No man cared for my soul” (Psalm 142:4), will be raised by a million million voices at the last assize. How will we ever explain our lethargy and neglect when the charge is referred to us by the billions of our own generation who will say to God, “I never knew you had a Son”? Are we any less culpable than those first disciples who saw in the woman of Samaria not a mission field but one whom they could afford to despise? (BORROW Exploring the Gospels. John) (Bold added) Related Passage: Matthew 9:37-38+ Then He *said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. 38 “Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.” MacArthur on white for harvest (therismos) suggests that the "white clothing (OF THE APPROACHING SAMARITANS) seen above the growing grain may have looked like white heads on the stalks, an indication of readiness for harvest." (BORROW MacArthur Study Bible) There's surely somewhere a lowly place In earth's harvest fields so wide, Where I may labor through life's short day For Jesus, the crucified. -Gabriel Steven
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Phillips - The reaper is already being rewarded and getting in a harvest for eternal life, so that both sower and reaper may be glad together. BGT John 4:36 ὁ θερίζων μισθὸν λαμβάνει καὶ συνάγει καρπὸν εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον, ἵνα ὁ σπείρων ὁμοῦ χαίρῃ καὶ ὁ θερίζων. NET John 4:36 The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. NLT John 4:36 The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike! ESV John 4:36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. NIV John 4:36 Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. GNT John 4:36 ὁ θερίζων μισθὸν λαμβάνει καὶ συνάγει καρπὸν εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον, ἵνα ὁ σπείρων ὁμοῦ χαίρῃ καὶ ὁ θερίζων. KJV John 4:36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. YLT John 4:36 'And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together; ASV John 4:36 He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. CSB John 4:36 The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so the sower and reaper can rejoice together. NKJ John 4:36 "And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. NRS John 4:36 The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. NAB John 4:36 The reaper is already receiving his payment and gathering crops for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. he who reaps: Pr 11:30 Da 12:3 Ro 1:13 6:22 1Co 9:19-23 Php 2:15,16 1Th 2:19-20 1Ti 4:16 2Ti 4:7,8 Jas 5:19,20 he who sows and he who reap: 1Co 3:5-9 John 4 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Related Passages: "Spiritual Harvest" passages... Daniel 12:3+ “Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. 1Th 2:19-20+ For who is our hope or joy or crown of exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? 20For you are our glory and joy. 1 Corinthians 3:5-9+ What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. 7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. 8Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. Amos 9:13 (HE WHO SOWS AND REAPS) Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “When the plowman will overtake the reaper And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; When the mountains will drip sweet wine And all the hills will be dissolved. WAGES OF WORKING FOR GOD In this next section (vv 36-38) Jesus addresses the nature of rewards with His thick headed disciples. R C H