Matthew 11:28 (BSB)

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

From Matthew 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Matthew 11:28

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Matthew 11:28: 28. Come to me all that labor He now kindly invites to himself those whom he acknowledges to be fit for becoming his disciples. Though he is ready to reveal the Father to all, yet the greater part are careless about coming to him, because they are not affected by a conviction of their necessities.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Matthew 11:25-30: In these verses we have Christ looking up to heaven, with thanksgiving to his Father for the sovereignty and security of the covenant of redemption; and looking around him upon this earth, with an offer to all the children of men, to whom these presents shall come, of the privileges and benefits of the covenant of grace. I.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Matthew 11:28: Take my yoke upon you,.... The phrase is Rabbinical. The Jewish doctors often speak (a) of , "the yoke of the kingdom of heaven", and of persons taking it upon them; and which they exhort to, and express in much such language as here (b); , "take upon you the yoke of the holy kingdom", every day. They distinguish this from the yoke of the law, and say (c).
• Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Matthew 11:28: Verse 28. All ye that labour and are heavy laden. He here, perhaps, refers primarily to the Jews, who groaned under the weight of their ceremonial laws, and the traditions of the ciders, . He tells them, that by coming to him, and embracing the new system of religion; they would be freed from these burdensome rites and ceremonies.