“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
11:28 — Come to me (Imagine how difficult it is to have an audience with some king, president or governor! But Jesus, the King of kings, invites everyone) all of you who are weary and burdened (not only burdened with sins and worries, but also with human laws and traditions, Matt 15:1-9; Matt 23:3-4), and I will give you rest (forgive us our sins when we obey the gospel and give us a clear conscience and peace in the soul). 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your souls; Jer 6:16 30 For my yoke it is easy, and my burden light. — Based on what Jesus just said in v 27 He has the authority to invite everyone to his salvation. Jesus’ “yoke” is his authority (his law, his teaching). Bearing his yoke means doing his will, submitting to his command. It is an “easy” yoke, that is, well accommodated, because its commandments “are not burdensome” (1Jn 5:3). Christ is meek and humble of heart in his government. He is not cruel, abusive, unjust, oppressive.
Source: Commentary on the New Testament by Partain
come to me Isaiah 45:22-25; Isaiah 53:2, Isaiah 53:3; Isaiah 55:1-3; Joh 6:37; Joh 7:37; Rev 22:17.
all of you who are weary and burdened. Matt 23:4; Gen 3:17-19; Job 5:7; Job 14:1; Ps 32:4; Ps 38:4; Ps 90:7-10; Eccl 1:8, Ecc 1:14; Eccl 2:22, Eccl 2:23; Eccl 4:8; Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 61:3; Isaiah 66:2; Mic 6:6-8; Ac 15:10; Romans 7:22-25; Gal 5:1.
that I will make you rest. Matt 11:29; Ps 94:13; Ps 116:7; Isaiah 11:10; Isaiah 28:12; Isaiah 48:17, Isaiah 48:18; Jer 6:16; 2Thes 1:7; Hebrews 4:1.
Source: The Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
COME TO ME. Jesus’ generous invitation is for all who are “worked and burdened” with the problems of life and the sins of their own human nature. To everyone who comes to Christ, becomes his servant, and obeys his leading, Christ will free him from his unbearable burdens and give him rest, peace, and his Holy Spirit for guidance. He will thus be able to bear trials and concerns with the help and grace of God (see Hebrews 4:16).
Source: Full Life Study Bible
Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden. We find in this passage an allusion to the first beatitude (Matt 5:3). Note that this is an open invitation to all who will listen, but made so that only those burdened by their own spiritual bankruptcy and the weight of trying to save themselves through the practice of law can respond. The stubbornness of humanity’s sinful rebellion is such that without sovereignly given spiritual awakening, all sinners refuse to acknowledge the path of spiritual poverty. This is the reason why Jesus says, in v. Matt 11:27, that our salvation is the product of the sovereign work of God. The truth of divine election in v. Matt 11:27 is perfectly compatible with the free offer of vv. Matt 11:28-30.
Source: MacArthur Study Bible
11:28 — Come to me (imagine how difficult it is to have an audience with some king, president, or governor! But Jesus, the King of kings, invites all) all of you who are weary and burdened (not just burdened with sins and concerns, but also with human laws and traditions, Mat 15:1-9; Mat 23:3-4), and I will give you rest (forgive us our sins when we obey the gospel and give us a clear conscience and peace in the soul) . 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your souls; Jer 6:16 30 for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. – Based on what Jesus just said in v 27 He has the authority to invite everyone to his salvation. Jesus’ “yoke” is his authority (his law, his teaching). Bearing his yoke means doing his will, submitting to his command. It is an “easy” yoke, that is, well accommodated, because its commandments “are not burdensome” (1Jn 5: 3). Christ is meek and humble of heart in his government. He is not cruel, abusive, unjust, oppressive.
Source: Reeves-Partain Notes
THE ACCENT OF COMPASSION
Matthew 11:28-30
Come to Me all of you who are exhausted and worn out under the weight of your burdens, and I will give you rest! Assume My yoke and learn from Me, For I am benign and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls; for My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.
Jesus was speaking to people who were desperately trying to find God, and desperately trying to be good, but were finding it impossible, exhausted, and despairing.
He tells them: “Come to Me, all of you who are worn out under your burdens.” For an Orthodox Jew, religion was burdensome. Jesus said of the scribes and the Pharisees: “They bind heavy and unbearable burdens, and put them on the shoulders of others” (Mt 23:4 ). For a Jew, religion was a matter of endless rules. He lived in a jungle of rules that regulated all situations in life. He had to constantly listen to himself: “Don’t do that.”
Even the rabbis realized that. There is a kind of gloomy parable that is put into Koré’s mouth, showing how imposing and burdensome and impossible the demands of the Law could become: “There was a poor woman in the neighborhood who had two daughters and a field. When she began to plow, Moses (that is, the Law of Moses) told her: “You must not plow with an ox and a donkey together.” When she began to thresh, he said to her: “Give me for the heave offering, and the first and second tithes.” She submitted to the ordinance, and gave it her all. What did the poor woman do then? She sold the field, and bought two sheep to clothe herself with her wool and make some profit from the lambs. When they had the lambs, Aaron (that is, the priesthood) came and said, “Give me the firstborn.” She fulfilled her decision and gave them to her: When the time came for shearing, and she began to shear her sheep, Aaron came and said to her, “Give me the first of the sheep’s wool.” Deut 18:4 ). Then she thought: “I can’t resist this man. I will kill my sheep and eat them.” When she made the slaughter, Aaron came and said to her: “Give me the leg, the jaws and the curd.” Deut 18:3 ). Then she told him: “Even killing them I am not safe from you. Well, come on: I consecrate you by vow” And then Aaron said to him: “In that case they belong to me whole.” Nm 18:14 ). And he went away with them and left her crying with her two hiSantiago from her »This cartoon is a parable of the continuous demands that the Law made on people in all circumstances of life. Those demands were undoubtedly a burden.
Jesus invites us to take His yoke on our shoulders. The Jews used the word yoke in the figurative sense of undergo to something. They spoke of the yoke of the Law, the yoke of the commandments, the yoke of the Kingdom, the yoke of God. But it may be that Jesus took the words of this invitation from something much closer to home.
He said: “My yoke is easy.” easy word is hréstós In Greek, what does it really mean? which fits well. Ox yokes were made in Palestine, as in Spain, of wood; the ox was taken to the carpenter so that he could measure it; then the wood was trimmed, and the ox was taken again to be tested: it fit well, so that it would not hurt the patient animal’s head. That is to say: that the yoke was made to measure, like a garment, so that it would fit the ox well.
A legend tells that Jesus made the best yokes for oxen in all of Galilee, and that they came to His workshop from everywhere to buy yokes for the animals. In those days, as now in many places, the workshops had slogans and signs above the door; and it has been suggested that those in Jesus’ workshop were a yoke and the phrase ‘MY YOKE FIT’. It is possible that Jesus was using here a picture of His Nazareth carpenter’s shop on which He faithfully worked during His silent years.
Jesus says, “My yoke fits well.” What this means is: “The life that I give you is not a burden that skins you; your mission is tailor-made for you to do well.” Whatever God proposes to us will fit exactly our needs and abilities.
Jesus says, “My burden is light.” As a rabbi said: “My burden has become my song.” It’s not that it’s always easy going; but it is imposed on us with love; we are proposed to carry it with love; love makes even the heaviest loads light. When we remember God’s love, when we realize that our burden is to love God and to love our fellow man, then our burden becomes our song. It is said that one once found a boy who was carrying on his back another even smaller one, who was lame. “That’s a lot of burden for you to carry,” the man told him. And the boy answered: “It is not a burden, sir; he’s my little brother.” The load that is imposed with love and carried with love is always light.
Source: New Testament Commentary
CROSS-REFERENCES
-523 Isa 55:2
Source: New World Translation
28 (1) It refers not only to the hard effort to keep the commandments of the law and religious precepts, but also to the hard effort to be successful in any work. Anyone who works like this is always overwhelmed. The Lord, after praising the Father, acknowledging the way the Father had chosen and declaring the divine economy, called such people to come to Him to rest.
28 (two) It refers not only to being freed from work and burden under law or religion or under any kind of work or responsibility, but also to have perfect peace and full satisfaction.
28 (a) Jua_6:37 ; Jua_7:37
28 (b) Matt_23:4 ; Luk_11:46 ; Act_15:10
Source: New Testament Commentary Recovery Version
This great invitation, offered to all, is threefold:
(1) come and receive salvation;
(2) learn in discipleship; Y
(3) serve under the yoke with the Lord. The yoke implies instruction under discipline. However, in contrast to the teaching of the scribes, Jesus’ yoke is easy. For all the ages, these verses have been among the most beloved of the NT.
Source: Ryrie Annotated Study Bible
R235 In πρός με, the pronoun is emphatic (comp. Mat 3:14).
R873 The future verb ἀναπαύσω can have a predictive or volitional sense in Spanish; (solemnly predictive -B65).
Source: Grammar Help for the Study of the Greek New Testament
Or, exhausted from so much work