Matthew 9:38 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁸Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

Matthew 9:38 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 10:1-2
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. …
Jeremiah 3:15
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
2 Thessalonians 3:1
Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
Acts 13:2
As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
John 20:21
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 35-38)

Here is, I. A conclusion of the foregoing account of Christ’s preaching and miracles (Matt. 9:35); He went about all the cities teaching and healing. This is the same we had before, Matt. 4:23. There it ushers in the more particular record of Christ’s preaching (Matt. 5:1-7:29) and of his cures (Matt. 8:1-9:38), and here it is elegantly repeated in the close of these instances, as the quod erat de…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 38)

38. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest--the great Lord and Proprietor of all. Compare Joh 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 Mt 9:25, and Joh 10:4--“When He putteth forth His own sheep.” (See on Mt 4:1).