Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy — Or rather gracious, sweet, benign, delightful: and my burden — Contrary to those of men, is ease, liberty, and honour.
For my yoke is easy — Or rather gracious, sweet, benign, delightful: and my burden — Contrary to those of men, is ease, liberty, and honour.
Verse Matthew 11:30. _FOR MY YOKE IS EASY_] My Gospel imposes nothing that is difficult; on the contrary, it provides for the complete removal of all that which oppresses and renders man miserable, v...
MY YOKE IS EASY ... - That is, the services that I shall require are easily rendered. They are not burdensome, like all other systems of religion. So the Christian always finds them. In coming to him...
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...
FOR MY YOKE IS EASY. The yoke that sin imposes is heavy, and bearing it brings no rest. So too the yoke of false or corrupted religion is burdensome; but Christ's yoke is easy. It is not hard to bear...
"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...
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...
ΤῸ ΦΟΡΤΊΟΝ ΜΟΥ ἘΛΑΦΡΌΝ ἘΣΤΙΝ. Contrast with this the burden of the Pharisees, ch. Matthew 23:4, φορτία βαρέα [καὶ δυσβάστακτα]....
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...
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...
ΧΡΗΣΤΌΣ (G5543) полезный, удобный, ΦΟΡΤΊΟΝ (G5413) бремя, ΈΛΑΦΡΌΝ (G1645) легкий. Принятие ига Иисуса не обременительно, иго это отличается кротостью и заботой о презираемых (Hill); _см._ Blaine Cha...
TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU— The word _yoke_ is used even by the heathen philosophers, to signify doctrine and precepts. St. John interpreting this passage in his first Epistle, 1 John 1:3 substitutes the w...
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...
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. FOR MY YOKE IS EASY, AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT. Matchless paradox, even among the paradoxically couched maxims in which our Lord delights! That rest which...
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'...
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...
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...
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...
EASY. — The Greek has a wider range of meaning — _good, helpful, kind, profitable._ MY BURDEN IS LIGHT. — The “burden” of Christ was the commandment that most characterised His teaching — the new com...
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'...
χρηστός, kindly to wear. Christ's doctrine fits and satisfies our whole spiritual nature reason, heart, conscience, “the sweet reasonableness of Christ”. φορτίον, the burden of obligation. ἐλαφρόν : i...
_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;...
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...
For my yoke [is] (k) easy, and my burden is light. (k) May easily be carried. For his commandments are not grievous, for all who are born of God overcome the world; (1 John 5:4)....
For my yoke is sweet, &c. For though, in regard of our weak nature, it be a very heavy yoke, yet the grace of God renders it easy and light, because our Lord himself helps us to bear it, according to...
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...
_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...
_THE YOKE OF CHRIST_ For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.’ Matthew 11:30 It is beautifully instructive how, in this incomparably winning invitation of Jesus, the call to rest, and the call...
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...
FOR MY YOKE IS EASY, AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT. Christ calls a profession of faith in him, and subjection to his ordinances, a yoke, in allusion to the law of Moses, and in distinction from it; and a "bu...
For my yoke _is_ easy, and my burden is light. Ver. 30. _For my yoke is easy_] _a_ After a man is once used to it a little: he cannot fudge so well with it perhaps at first, because an untamed heifer...
Mat. 11:30. "For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light." These words have a relation to the words of the invitation. Verse Matthew 11:28. The invitation is to them that labor and are burdened. A yok...
_Take my yoke upon you_ Believe in and obey me: hearken to me as a teacher, rely on me as a Saviour, and be subject to me as a governor. _And learn of me_ Μαθετε απ ' εμου, _Be my disciples; be taught...
FOR MY YOKE IS EASY, AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT. No mere man could have spoken these words, so full of heavenly majesty and divine comfort. Christ purposely makes use of many Old Testament phrases, but He...
The gracious invitation:...
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...
Ver. 28-30. Our Lord having before showed; 1. That all power was given to him; 2. That none could know the Father but by and in him; closes his discourse with an invitation of persons to him. By the...
Tertullian On Monogamy or with burdensomeness, in opposition to the "light burden"[6] Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas and accept the yoke of gentleness and the light burden,[18]...
Matthew 11:30 For G1063 My G3450 yoke G2218 easy G5543 and G2532 My G3450 burden G5413 is G2076 ...
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...
“For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” The word translated ‘easy' means ‘good, kind'. The point is that the yoke fits well and makes life easy so as to enable the task to be done quicker and b...
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 11:30. FOR MY YOKE IS EASY (wholesome) AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT. The ‘yoke' answers to those ‘laboring;' the ‘burden' to those ‘heavy laden.' Christ does not promise freedom from labor and burde...
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 11:29 I. Let us set it down as a first principle in religion that all of us must come to Christ, in some sense or other, through things naturally unpleasant to us; it may be even through bodil...
Matthew 11:30 This passage has in it some far-reaching things, which do not strike us on a mere cursory reading. (1) It sets before us very clearly the Saviour's constant attitude of invitation. (2) I...
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 11:1. _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...
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...
THE YOKE I WILL GIVE YOU IS EASY. His yoke is very easy and light, compared to the penalty which sin imposes. The load which Christ gives us is carried in love and he helps us to carry it. (_See_ Roma...
_For My yoke is easy and My burden is light._ CHRIST’S YOKE AND BURDEN some of the particulars in which Christ is reputed to impose a heavy yoke and burden. I know of no obligation chat rests upon m...
AN EASY YOKE Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me.... For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:29-30. If you walked in the fields in Palestine, and watched the plowing, you would no...
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...
1 John 5:3; 2 Corinthians 1:4; 2 Corinthians 1:5; 2 Corinthians 12:10;...
Easy [χ ρ η σ τ ο ς]. Not a satisfactory rendering. Christ's yoke is not easy in the ordinary sense of that word. The word means originally, good, serviceable. The kindred noun, crhstothv, occurring o...
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...
Observe here, 1. Christ's authority and greatness; he has power to impose. yoke, and inflict. burden. MY YOKE; MY BURDEN. 2. His clemency and goodness, is imposing an easy yoke, and. light burden. MY...