Not the twelve, for these are evidently distinguished, and only to be included under the labourers spoken of in the end of the next verse. 31), and perhaps a few unknown true believers.
the Gadarene demoniac ( Mark 5:20, possibly also the blind men of ver. Who besides himself? John the Baptist, some who had been healed, e.g. Matthew 10:23 Bengel), but the labourers are few. So also the Revised Version too strong a rendering of μέν.
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest - of human souls ( John 4:35-38). Changing the metaphor, he bids them pray him, who alone has the right and power, to send more workmen to reap these fields. He wants them to realize both the need of the people and the possibility that lay before the workmen. Our Lord himself, feeling the shepherdless condition of the people, desires to call out the interest of his disciples in it. Matthew seems to have recorded it in its original connexion. But while serving there as an introduction to the rest of the speech, the reason for it is so much more self-evident here that St. The utterance is given word for word (except one transposition) at the beginning of the address to the seventy in Luke 10:2. Once before, among the alien Samaritans, He had seen the fields white as for the spiritual harvest of the souls of men, and had spoken of him that soweth and him that reapeth ( John 4:35-36). John-which here, as so often elsewhere, supplies missing links and the germs of thoughts afterwards developed-that it was not a new similitude in our Lord's teaching. The harvest truly is plenteous.-This is the first occurrence in the record of the first three Gospels of the figure which was afterwards to be expanded in the two parables of the Sower and the Tares, and to reappear in the visions of the Apocalypse ( Revelation 14:14-19). A great want lies before Him, and He sees that they are the right agents to meet it, if only they will pray to be made so or, to put the case more clearly, if only they will pray that the work may be done, whether they themselves are or are not the doers of it. He craves the sympathy of His companions and disciples, and needs even their fellowship in prayer. It is not enough for Him to feel compassion Himself. Then saith he to his disciples, 'The harvest indeed is abundant, but the workmen few Įllicott's Commentary for English Readers(37) Then saith he unto his disciples.-No where in the whole Gospel record is there a more vivid or more touching instance of the reality of our Lord's human emotions. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest is abundant, but the reapers are few Then saith he to his disciples, The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few Then He says to His disciples, “The harvest indeed abundant, but the workmen few Then he told his disciples, "The harvest is vast, but the workers are few.
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