Matthew 11:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ”

• Matthew 11:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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:...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus and His Mission. Matthew 11:25-27 treats of the relation between the Father and the Son ( Luke 10:21 f.), Matthew 11:28-30 of the yoke of Jesus (Mt. only). No stress can be laid on at t...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  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,...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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 greate...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  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 m...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Come unto me - This phrase in the new covenant implies simply, believing in Christ, and becoming his disciple, or fol...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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,...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 t...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 a...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1-30 ; Matthew 12:1-50 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1-30 HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our Evangelist's recor...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Woe or Welcome Matthew 11:20-30 The voice of upbraiding, Matthew 11:20-24 . The Judge weeps as he pronounces the doom of those who reject Him. They would have crowned Him king, but refused...

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• Matthew 11:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 permi...

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• Matthew 11:28 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE REVELATION OF THE GOSPEL ‘At that time Jesus answered and said … My burden is light.’ Matthew 11:25-30 Let us look at this remarkable passage sentence by sentence. I. To whom the Gosp...

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• Matthew 11:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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, happ...

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• Matthew 11:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 fo...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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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• Matthew 11:28 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 disciple...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Invitation to Burthened Souls.       25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Matthew 11:30 " .

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• Matthew 11:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “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...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Scofield Reference Notes

  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...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Matthew 11:25-30 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."...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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. T...

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• Matthew 11:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Matthew 11:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 ; Matthew 19:1 ; Matthew 26:1 . In all f...

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• Matthew 11:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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• Matthew 11:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Thessalonians 1:7 ; Acts 15:10 ; Ecclesiastes 1:14 ; Ecclesiastes 1:8 ; Ecclesiastes 2:22 ; Ecclesiastes 2:23 ; Ecclesiastes 4:8 ; Galatians 5:1 ; Genesis 3:17-19 ; Hebrews 4:1 ; Isaiah...

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• Matthew 11:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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...

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