Matthew 11:28

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 11:28

Matthew 11:28Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden. The burdened directed to ChristI. The person’s whom our Lord here addresses.1. As burdened with convictions of sin and the keen remorse of a wounded conscience.2. That sinners under these circumstances labour to be released from their burden.(1) They resolve in their own strength to forsake their sins.(2) There are others who are ignorant of the righteousness of God, and go about to establish their own righteousness.(3) In... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 11:28

28 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 for that which satisfieth not?" Isaiah 4:2 ; "Can the son of Jesse give you vineyards and olive yards," &c.? as Saul said; so say I, Can the world or the devil do for you as I can? Why come ye not unto me, that ye may be saved? Can you mend yourselves anywhere? &c. But the poor soul is... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 11:28

Come: Isaiah 45:22-Lamentations :, Isaiah 53:2, Isaiah 53:3, Isaiah 55:1-Leviticus :, John 6:37, John 7:37, Revelation 22:17 all: Matthew 23:4, Genesis 3:17-Psalms :, Job 5:7, Job 14:1, Psalms 32:4, Psalms 38:4, Psalms 90:7-2 Samuel :, Ecclesiastes 1:8, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Ecclesiastes 2:22, Ecclesiastes 2:23, Ecclesiastes 4:8, Isaiah 1:4, Isaiah 61:3, Isaiah 66:2, Micah 6:6-Ruth :, Acts 15:10, Romans 7:22-Lamentations :, Galatians 5:1 and I: Matthew 11:29, Psalms 94:13, Psalms 116:7, Isaiah... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 11:28

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.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 I will give you rest - I alone (for none else can) will freely give you (what ye cannot purchase) rest from the guilt of sin by justification, and from the power of sin by sanctification. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 11:27-30

§ 40. JESUS, LORD OF ALL, INVITES ALL, Matthew 11:27-30 . This passage, 25-30, and especially Matthew 11:27, is so entirely in the style of John, that we might almost suppose Matthew to have inserted here a brief memorandum of our Saviour’s discoursing from that apostle’s hands. Alford more probably explains it as a momentary strain of a whole style of discourses of our Lord, reported by none of the evangelists but John alone. read more