Matthew 11:29

your souls. your own selves (emph.)

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Take my yoke - This is a figure taken from the use of oxen, and hence signifying to labor for one, or in the service of anyone. The “yoke” is use...
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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

29. Take my yoke upon you. Many persons, we perceive, abuse the grace of Christ by turning it into an indulgence of the flesh; and therefore...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1350 CHRIST A MEEK AND LOWLY TEACHER Matthew 11:29 . Learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Take my yoke upon you - Strange par...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Take my yoke upon you— The word yoke is used even by the heathen philosophers, to signify doctrine and precepts. St. John interpreting this passa...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Take my yoke upon you [the...
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 se...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Christ's relation to the Father and to mankind ( Luke 10:21 ). A sublime utterance, this 'pearl of the sayings of Jesus' (Keim), 'one of the purest...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Take my yoke upon you ] My yoke does not consist of a multitude of burdensome ordinances like that of the Law and of the Pharisees. It can hardly be...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Take my yoke upon you. — As the teaching of the Pharisees was a yoke too grievous to be borne, so the yoke of Christ is His teaching, His rule of l...
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...
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 H...
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 dire...
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 pa...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

CHRIST’S INVITATION ‘Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.’ Matthew 11:28 This invitation addresse...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

LEARNING OF CHRIST ‘Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me.’ Matthew 11:29 Just before our Lord spoke these words, He had declared His joy a...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Take my yoke upon you ,.... The phrase is Rabbinical. The Jewish doctors often speak a of עול מלכות שמים, "the yoke of the kingdom of heaven", and o...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Ver. 29. Take my yoke upon you...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 o...
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 i...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Christ's Invitation to Burthened Souls. 25 At that time Jesus answered and said,...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " Matthew 11:30 " .
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest to your souls.” The yoke of Jesus is not based on...
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 o...
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 k...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 11:28-29 One does not know whether tenderness or majesty is pre dominant in these wonderful words a Divine penetration into man's true con...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 11:28-30 In the little word "come" is folded up the whole morality of the sentence, the very ethics of the Gospel. I. "Come unto Me;" whe...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 11:29-30 I. Let us set it down as a first principle in religion that all of us must come to Christ, in some sense or other, through things...
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 the...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 t...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 11:20 . Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: They listened; sometim...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 11:25-26 . At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from...
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 seei...
The Biblical Illustrator

Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me. The school of Christ I. There must be docility, obedience, willingness to learn of that Teacher. II....
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 ; Matthe...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The gracious invitation:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 9:21 ; 1 John 2:6 ; 1 Peter 2:21-23 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:2 ; 2 Corinthians 10:1 ; 2 Corinthians 10:5 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:8 ; Act...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Take my yoke upon you — Believe in me: receive me as your prophet, priest, and king. For I am meek and lowly in heart — Meek toward all men, lowly...

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Related Commentaries of Matthew 11:29

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Matthew 11:29