Matthew 11:28

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 “disciples indeed” are men who have sought long, earnestly, but in vain, for the summum bonum, the knowledge of God. There is no burden so heavy as that of truth sought and not found. Scholars of the Rabbis, like Saul of Tarsus, knew it well. In coming thence to Christ's school they would find rest by passing from letter to spirit, from form to reality, from hearsay to certainty, from traditions of the past to the present voice of God. κἀγὼ, and I, emphatic, with side glance at the reputed “wise” who do not give rest (with Meyer against Weiss).