Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. The invitation that follows the claim of verse 27 — the one who exclusively knows and reveals the Father now invites everyone burdened by labor to come to him for rest. The all who labor and are heavy laden describes the condition of those under the impossible weight of the scribal interpretation of the Torah — the yoke that the Pharisees had elaborated into an unbearable burden. The rest promised is the rest of the one who offers a different yoke: the yoke of grace rather than the yoke of achievement.

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