Matthew Poole and continuators on John 4:36

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

You that are the Lords Instruments, to reap what the Prophets of old, and Iohn Baptist lately have sown, shall not lose your labour, you shall receive wages

and your wages shall not be small, it shall be no less than Eternal life, Dan. 12.3. They that turn many to Righteousness, shall shine as the Stars for ever and ever

Thus the Prophets and Iohn the Baptist, who sowed the Seed of the Gospel, and you that succeed them, and reap the fruit of what they did sow, shall have the same reward in Glory, and reioyce together. The Plow-man shall overtake the Reaper, and the treader of Grapes him that soweth Seed (as Amos speaks) Amos 9.13. This Text is of great use to those Godly Ministers which faithfully sow the Seed of the Word, but do not in their Life-time see any great effects of it; it may be it comes up when they are in their Graves; the Reward of a faithful Preacher doth not depend upon his success in his Labours, but upon his faithful discharge of his Work; tho' one soweth and another reapeth, yet both he that soweth, and he that reapeth shall reioyce together.