MATTHEW 11:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
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.
Church Fathers on Matthew 11:30
By what He had said, He brought His disciples to have a desire towards Him, shewing them His unspeakable excellence; and now He invites them to Him, saying, 'Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden.'
Whence do we all thus labour, but that we are mortal men, bearing vessels of clay which cause us much difficulty. But if the vessels of flesh are straitened, the regions of love will be enlarged. To what end then does He say, 'Come unto me,' all ye that labour, but that ye should not labour?
He calls to Him those that were labouring under the hardships of the Law, and those who are burdened with the sins of this world.
Read all 18 entries in the readerCatena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a reflection on this verse
No reflections on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!