John 4:35 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.

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New International Version
Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

New Living Translation
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.

English Standard Version
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.

Berean Standard Bible
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.

Berean Literal Bible
Do you⁺ not say, ‘It is yet four months and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you⁺, lift up your⁺ eyes and look at the fields, because they are white to harvest already.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
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!

New American Standard Bible
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.

NASB 1995
“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.

NASB 1977
“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.

Legacy Standard Bible
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.

Amplified Bible
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.

Berean Annotated Bible
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 \white/ for harvest.

Christian Standard Bible
“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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“Don’t you say, There are still four more months, then comes the harvest? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.

American Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
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.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"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.

Good News Translation
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!

International Standard Version
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!

NET Bible
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!

New Heart English Bible
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Weymouth New Testament
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.
Majority Text Translations
Majority Standard Bible
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.

World English Bible
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.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
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.

Berean Literal Bible
Do you⁺ not say, ‘It is yet four months and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you⁺, lift up your⁺ eyes and look at the fields, because they are white to harvest already.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Smith's Literal Translation
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.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
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.

New American Bible
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.

New Revised Standard Version
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.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
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.
NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
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.

Godbey New Testament
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

Haweis New Testament
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.

Mace New Testament
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.

Weymouth New Testament
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.

Worrell New Testament
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.

Worsley New Testament
Do not ye say, it is yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, lift up your eyes, and see the fields, they are already white for harvest.

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Context
The Disciples Return and Marvel
…34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. 35Do 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. 36Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.…
Cross References
Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’?

James 5:7
Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.

Galatians 6:9
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Ecclesiastes 11:4
He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields,

Genesis 13:14-15
After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west, / for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

Isaiah 49:18
Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.

Isaiah 40:26
Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
for they are ripe for harvest.

Joel 3:13
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.

Revelation 14:15
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.”

Mark 4:29
And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
Matthew 9:37-38
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.”

Luke 10:2
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.

Matthew 13:39
and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

John 9:4
While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

2 Corinthians 6:2
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!

Romans 13:11
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.

Matthew 24:14
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.


Treasury of Scripture

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.

John 4:30
Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

Matthew 9:37,38
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; …

Luke 10:3
Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

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John 4
1. Jesus talks with a woman of Samaria, and reveals his identity to her.
27. His disciples marvel.
31. He declares to them his zeal for God's glory.
39. Many Samaritans believe on him.
43. He departs into Galilee, and heals the ruler's son that lay sick at Capernaum.










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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 John 4, 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 Isaiah 49:6. The urgency of the harvest underscores the need for laborers, as Jesus later emphasizes in Matthew 9:37-38, calling for workers to gather the spiritual harvest.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Jesus Christ
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. The Disciples
Jesus' followers who are being taught to recognize the immediacy of the spiritual harvest around them.

3. The Samaritan Woman
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. Samaria
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. The Harvest
A metaphor for the readiness of people to receive the Gospel, emphasizing the spiritual opportunity present at that moment.
Teaching Points
Urgency of the Gospel
Jesus emphasizes the immediacy of the spiritual harvest, urging believers to recognize and act upon the opportunities to share the Gospel.

Spiritual Awareness
"Lift up your eyes" calls for spiritual discernment to see beyond the physical and recognize the spiritual needs around us.

Inclusivity of the Gospel
The setting in Samaria underscores the universal reach of the Gospel, breaking cultural and ethnic barriers.

Active Participation
Believers are called to be active laborers in God's field, participating in the work of evangelism and discipleship.

Faith in God's Timing
Trust in God's perfect timing for the harvest, understanding that He prepares hearts to receive His message.
Bible Study Questions and Answers
1. What is the meaning of John 4:35?

2. How does John 4:35 encourage urgency in sharing the Gospel today?

3. What does "fields are ripe for harvest" symbolize in John 4:35?

4. How can we discern spiritual readiness in others, as suggested in John 4:35?

5. How does John 4:35 connect with the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20?

6. What practical steps can we take to engage in the "harvest" now?

7. What does John 4:35 mean by "the fields are white for harvest"?

8. How does John 4:35 challenge our urgency in sharing the Gospel?

9. What historical context is important for understanding John 4:35?

10. What are the top 10 Lessons from John 4?

What Does John 4:35 Mean
Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’?

• Jesus begins with a familiar agricultural proverb. Everyone knew the ordinary rhythm: sow now, reap later (Genesis 8:22).

• By quoting it, He exposes a mindset of delay—“there’s plenty of time.” Yet spiritual opportunity seldom waits (Ecclesiastes 11:4; James 4:13-15).

• The disciples’ thinking was fixed on lunch and the natural timetable; Christ redirects them to a supernatural schedule where God’s clock reads “now” (2 Corinthians 6:2).

I tell you,

• This phrase signals divine authority. When Jesus speaks, common assumptions give way to revealed truth (Matthew 5:22; John 14:10).

• He is not offering a suggestion but issuing a command that overrides the comfortable proverb.

lift up your eyes

• The instruction is physical and spiritual: raise your gaze from immediate concerns to God’s larger mission (Isaiah 40:26; Colossians 3:1-2).

• It echoes moments when sight was supernaturally granted—Elisha’s servant seeing angelic hosts (2 Kings 6:17)—reminding us that unseen realities become clear when the Lord opens our eyes.

and look at the fields,

• Jesus points to the stream of Samaritans coming toward them after the woman’s testimony (John 4:29-30). Their white garments likely rippled like grain heads, a living illustration.

• The “fields” are people; the location is unexpected territory. Kingdom work is rarely confined to familiar soil (Acts 8:5-8; Matthew 9:37-38).

for they are ripe for harvest.

• No four-month wait here—the Spirit has already prepared hearts. The sower (Jesus, and even the woman) and the reapers (the disciples) will rejoice together (John 4:36-38; Hosea 6:11).

• Ripe means urgent. Delay risks loss; readiness calls for immediate labor (Romans 13:11-12; Luke 10:2).

• The verse reassures: God brings growth; our task is to recognize the moment and gather the yield.

summary

John 4:35 overturns the logic of postponement. While nature follows seasons, the Lord of the harvest announces a present, pressing abundance of souls ready to believe. He invites His followers to lift their eyes from routine, see people the way He sees them, and step promptly into the work He has already prepared.

(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 John 4:11, as the teacher of Israel (John 3:4), as the Jews (John 2:20), 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 (Leviticus 23:10; Deuteronomy 16:9) 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. John 5:1.) For the idea of the harvest, comp. Matthew 9:36-38, and the parable of the Sower, Matthew 13:3 et seq. . . .

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."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
{Do} you
ὑμεῖς (hymeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

not
οὐχ (ouch)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: 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
Strong's 3004: (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
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

still
Ἔτι (Eti)
Adverb
Strong's 2089: (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
Strong's 5072: Of four months, a period of four months. Neuter of a compound of tessares and men; a four months' space.

[until]
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
ὁ (ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: 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
Strong's 2326: Reaping, harvest; met: the harvest, crop. From therizo; reaping, i.e. The crop.

I tell
λέγω (legō)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 3004: (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
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

lift up
ἐπάρατε (eparate)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1869: To raise, lift up. From epi and airo; to raise up.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

eyes
ὀφθαλμοὺς (ophthalmous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3788: The eye; fig: the mind's eye. From optanomai; the eye; by implication, vision; figuratively, envy.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

look at
θεάσασθε (theasasthe)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Middle - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 2300: 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
Strong's 3588: 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
Strong's 5561: 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
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

they are
εἰσιν (eisin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: 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
Strong's 3022: White, bright, brilliant. From luke; white.

for
πρὸς (pros)
Preposition
Strong's 4314: To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.

harvest.
θερισμόν (therismon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2326: Reaping, harvest; met: the harvest, crop. From therizo; reaping, i.e. The crop.


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