“ For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. ”
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...
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 ).
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...
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ne...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 hei...
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 taugh...
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...
Christ's Invitation to Burthened Souls. 25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,...
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...
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...
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...
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."...
Matthew 11:1-3 . 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...
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...
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 upo...
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...
The gracious invitation:
1 John 5:3 ; 2 Corinthians 1:4 ; 2 Corinthians 1:5 ; 2 Corinthians 12:10 ; 2 Corinthians 12:9 ; 2 Corinthians 4:17 ; Acts 15:10 ; Acts 15:28 ; Galatians 5:1 ; Galatians 5:18 ; John 16:33 ;...
For my yoke is easy — Or rather gracious, sweet, benign, delightful: and my burden — Contrary to those of men, is ease, liberty, and honour.