Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

John 4:38

There are 5 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 632, footnote 7 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

Novatian. (HTML)

A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity. (HTML)

That the Same Divine Majesty is Again Confirmed in Christ by Other Scriptures. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 5186 (In-Text, Margin)

... He has received it of His Father? Or who says that He can again resuscitate and rebuild the destroyed temple of His body, except because He is the Word who is from the Father, who is with the Father, “by whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made;” the imitator of His Father’s works and powers, “the image of the invisible God;” “who came down from heaven;” who testified what things he had seen and heard; who “came not to do His own will, but rather to do the will of the Father,”[John 4:38] by whom He had been sent for this very purpose, that being made the “Messenger of Great Counsel,” He might unfold to us the laws of the heavenly mysteries; and who as the Word made flesh dwelt among us, of us this Christ is proved to be not man ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 77, footnote 7 (Image)

Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypses, Visio Pauli, Testament of Abraham, Acts of X/P, Zosimus, Aristides, Clement, Origen

The Diatessaron of Tatian. (HTML)

The Diatessaron. (HTML)

Section XXI. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1527 (In-Text, Margin)

... food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish [39] [Arabic, p. 84] his work. Said ye not that after four months cometh the harvest? behold, I therefore say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and behold the lands, [40] that they have become white, and the harvest is already come. And he that reapeth receiveth his wages, and gathereth the fruit of eternal life; and the sower and [41] the reaper rejoice together. For in this is found the word of truth, One soweth, and [42] another reapeth.[John 4:38] And I sent you to reap that in which ye have not laboured: others laboured, and ye have entered on their labour.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 6, page 423, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the Gospels

Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament. (HTML)

On the words of the Gospel, Luke x. 2, ‘The harvest truly is plenteous,’ etc. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3274 (In-Text, Margin)

... repressed their boldness in their heart. To this Samaritan woman then the Name of Christ was nothing new, she was already waiting for His coming, already did she believe that He would come. Whence had she believed it, if Moses had not sown? But hear this more expressly noted. The Lord then said to His disciples, “Ye say that the summer is yet far distant, lift up your eyes, and see the fields white already to harvest” And then He adds, “Others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.”[John 4:38] Abraham laboured, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, the Prophets laboured in sowing; at the Lord’s coming the harvest was found ripe. The reapers sent with the scythe of the Gospel, carried the sheaves into the Lord’s floor, where Stephen was to be threshed.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 273, footnote 8 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm LXV (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2580 (In-Text, Margin)

... said at that time to the disciples, “Ye say, far off is the harvest: look back, and see how white are the lands to harvest.” There hath been therefore a first harvest, there will be a second in the last age. The first harvest was of Jews, because there were sent to them Prophets proclaiming a coming Saviour. Therefore the Lord said to His disciples, “See how white are the lands to harvest:” the lands, to wit, of Judæa. “Other men,” He saith, “have laboured, and into their labours ye have entered.”[John 4:38] The Prophets laboured to sow, and ye with the sickle have entered into their labours. There hath been finished therefore the first harvest, and thence, with that very wheat which then was purged, hath been sown the round world; so that there ariseth ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 137, footnote 6 (Image)

Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statutes

Homilies on S. Ignatius and S. Babylas. (HTML)

Eulogy. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 377 (In-Text, Margin)

... Church entrusted to them, and how great work and danger there was in undertaking the matter on the threshold and at the beginning, and in being the first to enter upon it, I bring forward for you the testimony of Christ, who pronounces a verdict on these things, and confirms the opinion which has been expressed by me. For when he saw many coming to him, and was wishing to show the apostles that the prophets toiled more than they, he says: “Others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labour.”[John 4:38] And yet the apostles toiled much more than the prophets. But since they first sowed the word of piety, and won over the untaught souls of men to the truth, the greater part of the work is credited to them. For it is by no means the same thing for ...