Luke 10:2

He said to them, “The people who are ready to receive my message are like a field of [MET] grain that is ready for people to harvest {to be harvested}. But there are not many people to bring them to God. So pray and ask the Lord God to send more workers who will gather people together and teach them my message, just like a landowner sends workers into his fields to gather the harvest.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1After that, the Lord Jesus appointed 72 other people. He prepared to send them out, two-by-two, to every town and village where he [SYN] intended to go.

3Start going; but remember that I am sending you (pl) out to tell my message to people who will try to get rid of you. You will be like lambs among wolves.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:17I will come down and talk with you there. Then I will take some of the power of my Spirit that you have, and I will put that power on them also. They will help you to take care of some of the things that the people are concerned about, in order that you will not need to do it alone.

1 Kings 18:22Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only true prophet of Yahweh who is left, but Baal has 450 prophets.

Psalms 68:11The Lord gave a message, and many women took that message to other places.

Jeremiah 3:15If you do that, I will appoint for you leaders with whom I am pleased, leaders who will guide you well because they will know and understand what pleases me.

Zechariah 11:5The people who are going to buy the sheep will kill the sheep, and they will not be punished. Those who are selling the sheep say, ‘ I praise Yahweh, because I will become rich!’ Even the shepherds do not feel sorry for the sheep.

Matthew 9:36When he saw the crowd of people, he pitied them because they were harassed and dejected. They were like sheep that do not have a shepherd [SIM].

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 →

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