Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest—the great Lord and Proprietor of all. Compare John 15:1, "I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman."
that he will send forth labourers into his harvest—The word properly means "thrust forth"; but this emphatic sense disappears in some places, as in Matthew 9:25, and John 10:4 —"When He putteth forth His own sheep." (See on Matthew 4:1).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Matthew 9:38:
Matthew 20:1
Matthew 20:1
Luke 10:2
Romans 10:21
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