Season of Epiphany

Reading 3, 2 Tim 4:1-6 : Proclaim the word of God
1 | I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: |
2 | preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. |
3 | For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, |
4 | and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. |
5 | As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry. |
6 | For I am already on the point of being sacrificed; the time of my departure has come. |
Gospel, Jn 4:27-38 : I have food to eat that you do not know about
27 | Just then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" |
28 | So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city, and said to the people, |
29 | "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?" |
30 | They went out of the city and were coming to him. |
31 | Meanwhile the disciples besought him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." |
32 | But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." |
33 | So the disciples said to one another, "Has any one brought him food?" |
34 | Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. |
35 | Do you not say, `There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest. |
36 | He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. |
37 | For here the saying holds true, `One sows and another reaps.' |
38 | I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." |