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Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat something."

In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.

But He said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."

But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.

So the disciples were saying to one another, "No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?"

Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work.

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

"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.

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.

"Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.

And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

"For in this case the saying is true: 'One sows and another reaps.'

And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

"I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have come into their labor."

I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.