Matthew 11:28“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
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Matthew 11:28
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” — read online, free, in the King James Version.
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden” — Jesus' great invitation to the exhausted.
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What does Matthew 11:28 promise?
Jesus offers rest to the burdened: his yoke is easy and his burden light. The image is of a farmer's yoke — Jesus' teaching as a shared, gentle load rather than the crushing weight of religious obligation.
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This is the King James Version (1611) — the classic English translation, in the public domain and free to read and quote.
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