Open Your Eyes and Look At The Fields

John 4:27-42

Key Verse 4:35

Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

1. Read verses 27-30. Why were Jesus’ disciples surprised? (27)  What’s remarkable about what the woman did? (28)  What was her testimony? (29)  What was people’s response to her testimony? (30) How was she changed after meeting Jesus? 

2. Read verses 31-34.  What did Jesus say to his disciples when they urged him to eat? (31-32)  What was their response to Jesus’ statement? (33)  What did he mean by saying, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work?” (Jn 5:36, 6:38, 17:4) 

3. Read verses 35-38.  Why did Jesus now talk about the harvest and the fields? (35)  What does “open your eyes and look at the fields” mean? (35)  Why are the sower and the reaper glad together? (36-37)  For what did Jesus send his disciples? (38) 

4. Read verses 39-42.  How did one woman’s change affect the whole town? (39)  What then did the Samaritans request? (40)  How did many more of the Samaritans become believers? (41)  What was their testimony to the woman? (42)  How can we know that Jesus is the Savior of the world? (42)

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