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Pastors with a passion for sound exposition have joined forces with scholars with pastoral hearts to produce this exciting new commentary series. These volumes, informed by the best of recent evangelical scholarship, expound the implications of each New Testament book for today's church. Within the unique series format, pastors, teachers and Bible study leaders alike will find clear, forceful...

Jesus Offers Rest for the Broken (11:28–30) Jesus speaks here of a figurative bondage of unprofitable labor under an inadequate understanding of God’s law (23:4; Acts 15:10; Gal 5:1; compare Sirach 40:1; Did. 6; 1 Clement 16). Other teachers in Jesus’ day and afterward spoke of accepting the “yoke of God’s kingdom,” or God’s rule, by submitting to the yoke of the law rather than merely human rule. Like a good sage, Jesus invites disciples to learn from him. Yet Jesus did not interpret the law, including
Matthew 11:28–30