Matthew 9:37

Matthew 9:37

The Compassion of Jesus

35 Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, ^ateaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease¹ among the people.

36 ^aBut when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were¹ weary and scattered, ^blike sheep having no shepherd.

37 Then He said to His disciples, ^a“The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

38 ^aTherefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous—His eye doubtless rested immediately on the Jewish field, but this he saw widening into the vast field of "the world" (Matthew 13:38), teeming with souls having to be gathered to Him.

but the labourers—men divinely qualified and called to gather them in.

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