George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Matthew 11:28
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)
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)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
_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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
_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;...
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 “...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
HEAVY - LADEN; burdened with sins or sorrows of any kind. REST; relief, especially inward peace....
The gracious invitation:...
COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST....
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...
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 11:30"....
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...
Matthew 11:28 Come G1205 (G5773) to G4314 Me G3165 all G3956 labor G2872 (G5723) and G2532 laden...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
COME The new message of Jesus. The rejected King now turns from the rejecting nation and offers, not the kingdom, but rest and service to such in the nation as are conscious of the need. It is a pivo...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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....
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
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...
_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...
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;...
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...
2 Thessalonians 1:7; Acts 15:10; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 1:8;...
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...
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...
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...
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...