Clip (<5 mins)
New TestamentBiblical Languages
Evangelical
“White (or “Ready”) for Harvest” (John 4:35)
Theologian
Bill Mounce
Duration
4.53
Uploaded to YouTube
27 February 2023
Added to Database
17 December 2025
YouTube description
After speaking to the woman from Samaria, Jesus says to his disciples, “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 (λευκαί) for harvest” (ESV). I received an email the other day that said, “It's usually translated as though the fields are white, which is nonsensical anyway (ripe grain is never white). What is white?”
