Matthew 9:38 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 9:38

Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest.

KJV

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

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Commentary

1 voice

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 17 (604)

But consider, dearest brothers, consider what is said: "Pray the Lord of the harvest, that he send laborers into his harvest." Petition on our behalf, that we may be able to work worthily for you, lest our tongue grow sluggish from exhortation, lest after we have taken up the place of preaching, our silence condemn us before the just judge. For often the tongue of preachers is restrained because of their own wickedness; but often indeed it happens through the fault of those subject to them that the word of preaching is withdrawn from those who are in charge.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

The Lord of the harvest - Whose peculiar work and office it is, and who alone is able to do it: that he would thrust forth - for it is an employ not pleasing to flesh and blood; so full of reproach, labour, danger, temptation of every kind, that nature may well be averse to it. Those who never felt this, never yet knew what it is to be labourers in Christ's harvest.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

That he will send forth laborers - Οπως εκβαλλη εργατας, that he would thrust forth laborers. Those who are fittest for the work are generally most backward to the employment. The man who is forward to become a preacher knows little of God, of human nature, or of his own heart. It is, God’s province to thrust out such preachers as shall labor; and it is our duty to entreat him to do so.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1127: “Harvest Men Needed” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1873)

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
δεήθητε	deēthēte	do beseech	G1189 →
οὖν	oun	therefore	G3767 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
κυρίου	kuriou	Lord	G2962 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
θερισμοῦ	therismou	harvest	G2326 →
ὅπως	hopōs	that	G3704 →
ἐκβάλῃ	ekbalē	He may send out	G1544 →
ἐργάτας	ergatas	workmen	G2040 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
θερισμὸν	therismon	harvest	G2326 →
αὐτοῦ.¶	autou	of Him.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 3:15
Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
leads to
- Jeremiah 23:4
  I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.
- Acts 20:28
  Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
- Ephesians 4:11–12
  And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
- Ezekiel 34:23
  I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
- John 21:15–17
  When they had finished eating, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love Me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he answered, “You know I love You.” Jesus replied, “Feed My lambs.”
Through
John 20:21
Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.”
leads to
- John 17:18–19
  As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.
- Matthew 28:18–20
  Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
- John 13:20
  Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.”