Luke 10:2
And he said to them: The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send labourers into his harvest.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3Go: Behold I send you as lambs among wolves.
Cross References
Numbers 11:17That I may come down and speak with thee: and I will take of thy spirit, and will give to them, that they may bear with thee the burden of the people, and thou mayest not be burthened alone.
1 Kings 18:22And Elias said again to the people: I only remain a prophet of the Lord: but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.
Psalms 68:11In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor.
Jeremiah 3:15And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and doctrine.
Zechariah 11:5Which they that possessed, slew, and repented not, and they sold them, saying: Blessed be the Lord, we are become rich: and their shepherds spared them not.
Matthew 9:36And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd.
Matthew Henry on Luke 10:2-17
The Mission of the Seventy. 1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. 2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. 3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. 5 And into… Read the whole commentary →