Matthew 9:38 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. ”

Matthew 9:38 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will (i) send forth labourers into his harvest. (i) Literally, "cast them out": for men are very slow in a work so holy.
Matthew 9:38 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 9:36 to Matthew 10:4 . The Sending of the Twelve. Jesus sees the people distressed and scattered better, mishandled and lying helpless utterly unprepared, through lack of spiritual guida...
Matthew 9:38 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Pray. Greek. deornai. App-134. power . authority. See App-172. against . over. Greek Genitive of Relation. App-17. spirits. Plural of Greek. pneuma. See App-101. to . so as to. all m...
Matthew 9:38 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

38. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest As no man will of himself become a sincere and faithful minister of the gospel, and as none discharge in a proper manner the office of teacher b...
Matthew 9:38 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1340 OUR DUTY TO THE BENIGHTED WORLD Matthew 9:36-38 . when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scatteredm abroad, as sheep hav...
Matthew 9:38 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. That he will send forth laborers - Οπως εκβαλλη εργατας, that he would thrust forth laborers. Those who...
Matthew 9:38 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

That he will send forth— The original word εκβαλη plainly imports some degree of force. Dr. Doddridge therefore very properly translates and paraphrases the passage thus: Therefore let me urge yo...
Matthew 9:38 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest - the great Lord and Proprietor of all. Compare John...
Matthew 9:38 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sick of the Palsy. Call of Matthew. Raising of Jairus' Daughter 1-8. The paralytic healed and his sins forgiven ( Mark 2:1 ; Luke 5:17 ). The peculiarity of this miracle is that it was worked...
Matthew 9:38 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The Lord of the harvest — i.e., the Father who had sent Him to be the Sower of the divine seed, and who, through Him, was about to send forth the labourers.
Matthew 9:38 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 9 The King's Ambassadors - Matthew 9:36-38 ; Matthew 10:1-42 I - THE MISSION. Matthew 9:36-38 - Matthew 10:1-5 So far the King Himself has done all the work of the kingdom. But it...
Matthew 9:38 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Planning the Harvest Matthew 9:35-38 ; Matthew 10:1-4 A new chapter in our Lord's ministry opens at this point. As He walked amid the crowded towns and villages of Galilee, His heart was deepl...
Matthew 9:38 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The King now exercised His authority in a new way. He pronounced pardon on a sinner, and straightway opposition was aroused. To the questioning and rebellious hearts He vindicated His authority to fo...
Matthew 9:38 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What an interesting sight must it have been to have seen Jesus thus engaged, preaching the doctrines of grace, and confirming the word with ministering to all the wants of nature. And I beg the Reade...
Matthew 9:38 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest ,.... By "the Lord of the harvest" is either meant God the Father, whose are all the elect, who has a hearty concern for them, and will have them all gather...
Matthew 9:38 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. Ver. 38. Labourers into his harvest ] Harvestmen, of all others, have the hardest labour, a sore swe...
Matthew 9:38 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then saith he to his disciples To quicken their devotion and zeal, The harvest Namely, of souls to be gathered in, is plenteous The multitudes that followed Jesus, and expressed so earnest a de...
Matthew 9:38 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Returning to His own city, Capernaum, He has brought to Him a man totally helpless, lying on a bed. This case of palsy is indicative of the complete debilitating effects of sin: man is left without s...
Matthew 9:38 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jesus Preaching throughout the Country. 35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and prea...
Matthew 9:38 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

OLBGrk; Ver. 37,38. The plain sense of these two verses is this: John the Baptist and Christ had now been preaching for some time, God inclined the hearts of great multitudes to follow both the one...
Matthew 9:38 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Then says he to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the labourers are few. Pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.” ' Jesus saw th...
Matthew 9:38 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Matthew 9:36-38 Preparing for change.—We seem here to be like men arriving at a new stage on their journey. At such a juncture they naturally ask, on the one h...
Matthew 9:38 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 9:36-38 Jesus Seeing the People. Note: I. What Jesus saw. He saw the multitudes. The range of His vision could not be limited, nor His ministry confined, to the immediate requirement of...
Matthew 9:38 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 9:1 . And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city. Our Lord had given these Gergesenes an opportunity of becoming his disciples, the kingdom of God had come ve...
Matthew 9:38 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 9:1 . Jesus came into his own city, Capernaum, as in Mark. Our Saviour was a stranger on earth, born in Bethlehem, an exile in Egypt, resident at Nazareth, but latterly in Capernaum. Mat...
Matthew 9:38 - The Biblical Illustrator

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest. The spiritual harvest-field 1. How closely connected the spiritual commission of the apostles was with deep sympathy for the physical wants of humanit...
Matthew 9:38 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 9:1-40 The paralytic forgiven and healed. Parallel passages: Mark 2:1-41 ; Luke 5:17-42 . (For connexion of thought, cf. Matthew 8:18 , note.) In the parallel pass...
Matthew 9:38 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Christ's compassion:
Matthew 9:38 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:28 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:1 ; Acts 13:2 ; Acts 8:4 ; Ephesians 4:11 ; Jeremiah 3:15 ; John 20:21 ; Luke 10:1 ; Luke 10:2 ; Luke 6:12 ; Luke 6:13 ; Micah 5:7 ; Matthew 10:1-...
Matthew 9:38 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The Lord of the harvest — Whose peculiar work and office it is, and who alone is able to do it: that he would thrust forth — for it is an employ not pleasing to flesh and blood; so full of reproach...

Matthew 9:38 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 9:38 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Matthew 9:38 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 9:38 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 9:38 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Matthew 9:38 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 9:38 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 9:38 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 9:38 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 9:38 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 9:38 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 9:38 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 9:38 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 9:38 - The Biblical Illustrator

Matthew 9:38 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 9:38 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 9:38 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 9:38 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes