MATTHEW—NOTE ON Matthew 11:29 yoke. The wooden frame joining two animals (usually oxen) for pulling heavy loads. It was a metaphor for one person’s relationship to another, and also a common metaphor for the law. The Pharisees’ interpretation of the law, with its extensive list of rules, had become a crushing burden (see Matthew 23:4). Jesus’ yoke of discipleship, on the other hand, brings rest through simple and wholehearted commitment to him (see 1 John 5:3).

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