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Verse Matthew 11:28. _COME UNTO ME_] This phrase in the new covenant
implies simply, _believing in Christ_, and _becoming his disciple_, or
_follower_.
_ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN_] The...
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ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN - The Saviour here, perhaps,
refers primarily to the Jews, who groaned under the weight of their
ceremonial laws and the traditions of the elders, Acts 15:10. He...
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8. THE FORERUNNER IN PRISON. THE KINGDOM PREACHING REJECTED.
CHAPTER 11
1. John Imprisoned Sends his Disciples. (Matthew 11:1 .) 2. The
King's Testimony Concerning John. (Matthew 11:7 .) 3. The King...
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JESUS AND HIS MISSION.
Matthew 11:25 treats of the relation between the Father and the Son
(Luke 10:21 f.), Matthew 11:28 of the yoke of Jesus (Mt. only). No
stress can be laid on at that time, though...
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III. REST FOR THE HEAVY LADEN :--
28. COME UNTO ME.
This is one of the sweetest passages in the New Testament. It shows
the willingness of the Lord. The kings of earth and the great are
usually diffi...
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THE SIX ACCENTS IN THE VOICE OF JESUS (Matthew 11:1-30)
Matthew 11:1-30 is a chapter in which Jesus is speaking all the time;
and, as he speaks to different people and about different things, we
hear...
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"Come to me, all you who are exhausted and weighted down beneath your
burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of
me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find r...
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COME, &C. Here Christ refers, not to sins, but to service; not to
guilt, but to labour; not to the conscience, but to the heart; not to
repentance, but to learning; not to finding forgiveness, but to...
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_Come unto me_ Jesus does not give rest to all the heavy laden, but to
those of them who show their want of relief by coming to Him....
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Rest for the heavy laden
These words of Jesus are preserved by St Matthew only. The connecting
thought is, those alone shall know who desire to learn, those alone
shall have rest who feel their burde...
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ΔΕΥ͂ΤΕ ΠΡΌΣ ΜΕ. Jesus does not give rest to all the heavy
laden, but to those of them who shew their want of relief by coming to
Him. For δεῦτε see note ch. Matthew 4:19.
ΚΟΠΙΩ͂ΝΤΕΣ ΚΑῚ ΠΕΦΟΡΤΙΣΜΈΝΟΙ....
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REST FOR THE HEAVY LADEN
These words of Jesus are preserved by St Matthew only. The connecting
thought is, those alone shall know who desire to learn, those alone
shall have rest who feel their burde...
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VER 28. "COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I
WILL GIVE YOU REST. 29. TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME; FOR I
AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART: AND YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR...
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_A MEANS OF REST MATTHEW 11:25-30:_ There are many ways Christ
benefits our lives and there are many blessings that come through the
gospel. No blessing is greater than "rest for your soul" which is
o...
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ΔΕΎΤΕ (G1205) _adv._ употреблено как
побудительная частица с _pl._: "придите!"
"идите сюда!" (BAGD).
ΚΟΠΙΏΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. пот. pl. от_ ΚΟΠΙΆΩ
(G2872) изнашиваться, уставать, усердно
трудиться...
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DISCOURSE: 1349
THE HEAVY-LADEN INVITED TO CHRIST
Matthew 11:28. _Come unto me, all ye that labour, and are heavy-laden,
and I will give you rest_.
IT is thought by many, that the Gospel is a mere sy...
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COME UNTO ME, &C.— Our Saviour here shews to whom he is pleased to
reveal these things. Warmed with the most ardent love to men, he
graciously invites _all_ who are weary of the slavery of sin, and
de...
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Section 25
JESUS CONDEMNS UNBELIEVING CITIES AND INVITES BABES TO COME TO HIM
TEXT: 11:20-30
I. HEARTBROKEN CONDEMNATION
20.
Then began he to unbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works
wer...
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Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest. COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I
WILL GIVE YOU REST. Incomparable, ravishing sounds these-if...
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27 See Joh_3:35; Joh_17:2.
28 It is this God-consciousness, this recognition of His hand in all
things, and more especially in that which is opposed to His apparent
will, which gives His slaves heart'...
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THE DISCIPLES OF THE BAPTIST
1. Tours of Jesus after dismissing His apostles. The apostles started
on their mission about five weeks before the second Passover of the
ministry (28 a.d.) and were away...
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CHRIST'S RELATION TO THE FATHER AND TO MANKIND (Luke 10:21). A sublime
utterance, this 'pearl of the sayings of Jesus' (Keim), 'one of the
purest and most genuine,' 'one of Johannean splendour' (Meyer...
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COME UNTO ME] He does not say 'unto God,' but 'unto Me,' making
Himself the dispenser of grace and the centre of Christian devotion.
THAT LABOUR] that find life a toil to them. ARE HEAVY LADEN] with t...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 11
JOHN THE *BAPTIST ASKED A QUESTION 11:1-6
V1 Jesus finished giving instructions to his 12 *disciples. Then he
went on from there...
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COME UNTO ME. — As in the consciousness of this plenitude of power,
the Son of Man turns with infinite compassion to those whose weakness
and weariness He has shared, and offers them the rest which no...
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Chapter 10
The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1
I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1
HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our
Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
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_The gracious invitation_. Full of O. T. reminiscences, remarks
Holtz., H.C., citing Isaiah 14:3; Isaiah 28:12; Isaiah 55:1-3;
Jeremiah 6:16;...
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Δεῦτε : _vide ad_ Matthew 4:19, again authoritative but kindly.
κοπιῶντες καὶ πεφορτισμένοι, the fatigued
and burdened. This is to be taken metaphorically. The kind of people
Jesus expects to become “...
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WOE OR WELCOME
Matthew 11:20
_ The voice of upbraiding,_ Matthew 11:20. The Judge weeps as he
pronounces the doom of those who reject Him. They would have crowned
Him king, but refused to repent. See...
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This picture of John is very full of pathos-from the high triumph of
inspired preaching to the solitude and loneliness of a prison. John
made as direct application to Jesus as his circumstances permit...
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_All you that, &c. That is, you who are wearied with the heavy load of
your sins, and the grievous yoke of the old law. (Menochius)_...
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THE DOUBLE REST
Matthew 11:28. _“Come unto Me, all ye who are laboring and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest.”_ These laboring people are all
convicted sinners, toiling to save their own souls...
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SOVEREIGN, DISCRIMINATING MERCY OF GOD
Matthew 11:20-30. “Then He began to upbraid the cities, in which
most of His mighty works were wrought, because they did not repent:
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe...
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Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a
striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has
been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
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_THE REVELATION OF THE GOSPEL_
‘At that time Jesus answered and said … My burden is light.’
Matthew 11:25
Let us look at this remarkable passage sentence by sentence.
I. TO WHOM THE GOSPEL WAS REV...
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_CHRIST’S INVITATION_
‘Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.’
Matthew 11:28
This invitation addressed to a certain class. To the self-sufficient
it has no...
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_CHRIST AND LABOUR_
‘Come unto Me, all ye that labour.’
Matthew 11:28
We have witnessed the entry upon the stage of our political history
of a new power—the power of labour, united, organised, cons...
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28._Come to me all that labor _He now kindly invites to himself those
whom he acknowledges to be fit for becoming his disciples. Though he
is ready to reveal the Father to all, yet the greater part ar...
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From that hour we find the definitive judgment of the nation, not
indeed as yet openly declared (that is in chapter 12), nor by the
cessation of Christ's ministry, which wrought, notwithstanding the
o...
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COME UNTO ME,.... Christ having signified, that the knowledge of God,
and the mysteries of grace, are only to be come at through him; and
that he has all things relating to the peace, comfort, happine...
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Come unto me, all _ye_ that labour and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.
Ver. 28. _Come unto me_] Why do ye go about, as Jeremiah Jer 31:22
hath it, and fetch a compass? "Why labour ye for t...
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_Come unto me_ Our Lord here shows to whom he is pleased to reveal the
Father, and the things said above to be hid from the wise and prudent;
to those _that labour_, or, _are weary_, as κοπιωντες may...
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HEAVY - LADEN; burdened with sins or sorrows of any kind.
REST; relief, especially inward peace....
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COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE
YOU REST....
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The gracious invitation:...
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Throughout Israel now the Lord carries on an intensive teaching and
preaching in their cities. John the Baptist hears of this in the
prison, but he is deeply puzzled, for he sends two of his disciples...
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25-30 It becomes children to be grateful. When we come to God as a
Father, we must remember that he is Lord of heaven and earth, which
obliges us to come to him with reverence as to the sovereign Lor...
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SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 11:30"....
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I
And again, when He said, "Come unto Me all ye that labour and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest, and learn of Me,"[264]
Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to...
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Matthew 11:28 Come G1205 (G5773) to G4314 Me G3165 all G3956 labor
G2872 (G5723) and G2532 laden...
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“Come to me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest.”
The call ‘come (deute) to Me' made to those who are labouring can be
compared with Isaiah 55:3, where it is God Who spea...
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A GENERAL APPEAL TO MEN AND WOMEN (11:28-30).
This final general appeal to all who will hear confirms that in spite
of His words to the towns, for those who will respond there is a way
back to God. I...
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This section is a continuation of the preceding discourse. The
comparison between the children of ‘this generation' and ‘wisdom'
which is justified by her works, is, on the one hand, sharpened into a...
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Matthew 11:28. COME UNTO ME. Christ now shows first of all His
_willingness_ (comp. Matthew 11:27) in this invitation.
ALL YE THAT LABOUR, etc., ‘all the laboring and the burdened.' A
figurative desc...
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COME UNTO ME
(δευτε προς με). Verses 28 to 30 are not in Luke and are
among the special treasures of Matthew's Gospel. No sublimer words
exist than this call of Jesus to the toiling and the burdened...
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Matthew 11:28
In the little word "come" is folded up the whole morality of the
sentence, the very ethics of the Gospel.
I. "Come unto Me;" wherefore the all-important question is, How are we
to come?...
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Matthew 11:28
One does not know whether tenderness or majesty is pre dominant in
these wonderful words a Divine penetration into man's true condition,
and a Divine pity, are expressed in them. Jesus l...
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Matthew 11:28
I. Restlessness. (1) We have all known the misery of restlessness in
its physical, its bodily working. (2) There is a restlessness of mere
suspense. (3) There is a suspense and a restle...
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Matthew 11:25
I. The word which our English version renders "I thank Thee" is in
reality of more extended meaning. It means something of this kind, "I
confess, I acknowledge, Thy great wisdom." There...
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Matthew 11:1. _And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of
commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to
preach in their cities._
Whatever he commanded, he himself did. H...
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Matthew 11:1. _And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of
commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to
preach in their cities. Now when John had heard in the prison the...
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Matthew 11:25. _At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things
from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes....
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Matthew 11:20. _Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of
his mighty works were done, because they repented not:_
They listened; sometimes, they applauded; but they repented not; and
there...
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CONTENTS: Answer to questions sent Jesus by John the Baptist. Judgment
predicted as result of rejection of Christ. Rest for individuals who
put their trust in Him.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, John the Baptist...
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Matthew 11:3. _Art thou he that should come, or do we look for
another._ Brevity here is connected with obscurity. John could not
doubt, after seeing the glory, and hearing the voice from heaven. The...
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COME TO ME. A promise! Kings and rulers make themselves difficult to
reach. Our Divine Savior says: "Come to me!" It is the Lord who
speaks. He says: "Cornel" He invites those who are "tired from
carr...
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_Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden._
THE BURDENED DIRECTED TO CHRIST
I. The person’s whom our Lord here addresses.
1. As burdened with convictions of sin and the keen remorse of a...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 11:28 ALL WHO LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN
refers in the first instance to those oppressed by the religious
legalism imposed on people by the scribes and Pharisees....
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 11:1 Opposition to the Messiah Increases.
There has been occasional resistance to Jesus’ ministry (e.g.,
Matthew 9:3). It now begins to increase sig
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CHAPTER 11
_And it came to pass_, &c. _He passed from thence_ : That means, He
separated Himself from His Apostles, whom He sent to preach the Gospel
by themselves, both that they might prepare the wa...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 11:25. ANSWERED AND SAID.—A Hebraism for “spake and
said” (_Carr_). But Dr. Monro Gibson observes: “As we read, first
of the doubts of John, then of the thoughtlessness of the...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 11:1
Matthew only. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JESUS HAD MADE AN END. The
same formula recurs in Matthew 7:28; Matthew 13:53;...
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Now it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of these commandments,
he departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities (Matthew
11:1).
So He sent them out in front of them, and then He...
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2 Thessalonians 1:7; Acts 15:10; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 1:8;...
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Labor and are heavy - laden [κ ο π ι ω ν τ ε ς κ α ι π ε
φ ο ρ τ ι σ μ ε ν ο ι]. The first an active, the second a
passive participle, exhibiting the active and passive sides of human
misery.
Give re...
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Come to me — Here he shows to whom he is pleased to reveal these
things to the weary and heavy laden; ye that labour — After rest in
God: and are heavy laden — With the guilt and power of sin: and I
w...
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Is Jesus’ yoke easy or hard?
PROBLEM: Jesus said here, “My yoke is easy and My burden is
light.” However, Hebrews declares that “whom the Lord loves He
chastens, And scourges every son whom He receiv...
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Here we have. sweet invitation, backed with. gracious encouragement:
Christ invites such as are weary of the burden of sin, of the slavery
of Satan, of the yoke of the ceremonial law, to come unto him...