Matthew 11:28-29

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 11:28-30

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. In the turmoil of a troubled world there is a place of rest, and it is under His yoke which will result in walking as outlined in the Sermon on the Mount. So He calls on men and women to turn from the yoke of the Scribes and Pharisees and come under His yoke and walk with Him. The yoke was a well... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 11:29

“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 submitting to His instruction but on learning from Jesus Himself what it meant to be meek and lowly in heart, and walking in submission to Him. It is the yoke of the Kingly Rule of God. In general a yoke is a wooden instrument that joins two animals so that it makes it easier for them, acting together, to pull a heavy load. The idea may well be that... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 11:25-30

Matthew 11:25-Amos : . Jesus and His Mission. Matthew 11:25-Daniel : treats of the relation between the Father and the Son ( Luke 10:21 f.), Matthew 11:28-Amos : of the yoke of Jesus (Mt. only). No stress can be laid on “ at that time,” though “ these things” might mean the significance of the wonders which Chorazin and the other towns had not perceived, or (excluding Matthew 11:20-Jeremiah :) the methods of the Divine wisdom. Lk. makes the words refer to the theme of the preaching of the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 11:28-30

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 the weary and heavy laden, in the text, some understand those that are laden with the sense of their sins, and the feeling the guilt of them. Others understand, with the burden of the law, which the apostles called a yoke, Acts 15:10. Mr. Calvin thinks this too strait an interpretation. Others understand heavy... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 11:25-30

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 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 of the multitudes, and then of the impenitence of the favoured cities by the lake, is there not a question in our hearts, becoming more and more urgent as each new discouragement appears: What will He say to this? What can He answer?” (Expositor’s Bible). Prudent.—Understanding (R.V.). The understanding is a... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 11:25-30

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." There was something in the dispensation of God's providence, of which our Saviour speaks, which at once commended itself to His holy mind as wise and good; not merely something in which He saw the demonstration of God's power, which proved God's omnipotence, but rather that which equally proved His... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 11:28

Matthew 11:28 I. Sin always imposes burdens upon the sinner. II. The burdens of the sinner are a continual appeal to the affection and power of Jesus Christ. III. Jesus Christ, in offering rest to burdened souls, asserted His claim to be regarded as God. IV. A double action is indicated in the offer. Come give. Come with your burdens, and in the very act of coming the burden will be taken away. R. A. Bertram, City Temple, vol. i., p. 11. References: Matthew 11:28 . Spurgeon, My Sermon... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 11:28-29

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 condition, and a Divine pity, are expressed in them. Jesus looks with clear-sighted compassion into the inmost history of all hearts, and sees the toil and the sorrow which weigh on every soul. And no less remarkable is the Divine consciousness of power to succour and to help which speaks in them. I. Consider the twofold designation here of the persons... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 11:28-30

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;" wherefore the all-important question is, How are we to come? We hear the call, we kindle into fervour at the Divine promise; but what are we to do? how are we to come? Faith is the hand that toucheth the hem of our Saviour's garment; or faith is the tongue which responds to the invitation, and saith, Lord, I come; faith is that which appropriates the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 11:29-30

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 naturally unpleasant to us; it may be even through bodily suffering, or it may be nothing more than the subduing of our natural infirmities and the sacrifice of our natural wishes; it may be pain greater or less, on a public stage or a private one; but till the words "yoke" and "cross" can stand for something pleasant, the bearing of our yoke and... read more

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