Matthew 11:30

For my yoke is easy — Or rather gracious, sweet, benign, delightful: and my burden — Contrary to those of men, is ease, liberty, and honour.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 ove...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 th...
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

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 cou...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Easy. — The Greek has a wider range of meaning — good, helpful, kind, profitable. My burden is light. — The “burden” of Christ was the command...
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

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James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE YOKE OF CHRIST For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.’ Matthew 11:30 It is beautifully instructive how, in this incomparably winn...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 th...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 wel...
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

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 d...
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

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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

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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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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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

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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

For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light. No mere man could have spoken these words, so full of heavenly majesty and divine comfort. Christ pur...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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...

³⁰ For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Related Commentaries of Matthew 11:30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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

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

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

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

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