For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. The easy yoke and the light burden do not mean that following Jesus requires no effort or sacrifice — the Sermon on the Mount has shown that discipleship is demanding. The contrast is between the burden of achieving righteousness through an exhaustive rule system and the burden of following Jesus whose righteousness is received as a gift. The light burden is not the absence of the cross but the presence of the one who carries it alongside the disciple.

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