Matthew 11:28

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Come vnto me all ye that labour sore, and are laden, and I wyll ease you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Δεῦτε πρός με, πάντες οἱ κοπιῶντες καὶ πεφορτισμένοι, κἀγὼ ἀναπαύσω ὑμᾶς.

Transliteration

Deute to me, all the ones kopiōntes and pephortismenoi, and I anapausō you.

Grammar Details

• *Deute*: adverb/imperative - come
• *kopiōntes*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, plural - laboring/toiling
• *pephortismenoi*: perfect participle, passive, nominative, masculine, plural - having been burdened
• *anapausō*: future, active, 1st singular - I will give rest

Word Meanings

• *Deute*: come/come here
• *kopiōntes*: laboring/toiling/growing weary
• *pephortismenoi*: having been burdened/loaded down/heavy laden
• *anapausō*: I will give rest/refresh/relieve

Referenced Verses

• Matt 11:29 : 29 Take my yoke vpon you and learne of me, for I am meeke & lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules.
• John 7:37 : 37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Iesus stoode and cryed, saying: Yf any man thirste, let him come vnto me and drynke:
• Gal 5:1 : 1 Stande fast therfore in the libertie wherwith Christe hath made vs free, and be not intangled agayne with ye yoke of bondage.
• Isa 55:1-3 : 1 Come to the waters all ye that be thirstie, and ye that haue no money, come, bye, that ye may haue to eate: Come, bye wine and mylke without any money or money worth. 2 Wherfore do ye lay out any money for the thyng that feedeth not, and spende your labour about the thyng that satisfieth you not? But hearken rather vnto me, and ye shal eate of the best, and your soule shall haue her pleasure in plenteousnesse. 3 Encline your eares and come vnto me, take heede I say and your soule shall lyue: For I wyll make an euerlastyng couenaunt with you, euen the sure mercies of Dauid.
• John 6:37 : 37 All that the father geueth me, shall come to me: and hym that commeth to me, I cast not away.
• Isa 66:2 : 2 As for these thynges, my hande hath made them all, and they are all created saith the Lorde: which of them shall I then regarde? Euen hym that is poore and of a lowly troubled spirite, and standeth in awe of my wordes.
• Mic 6:6-8 : 6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lorde, and bowe my selfe to the hye God? Shall I come before him with burnt offeringes, and with calues of a yere olde? 7 Hath the Lorde a pleasure in many thousandes of Rammes, or innumerabic streames of oyle? shall I geue my first borne for myne offences, and the fruite of my body for the sinne of my soule? 8 He hath shewed thee O man what is good, and what the Lorde requireth of thee: namely to do iustly, to loue mercie, and to humble thy selfe to walke with thy God.
• Matt 23:4 : 4 Yea, they bynde together heauy burthens, and greeuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders: but they them selues wyll not moue them with one of their fingers.
• Rev 22:17 : 17 And the spirite and the bride say, come. And let hym that heareth, say also, come. And let hym that is a thirst, come. And let whosoeuer wyll, take of the water of lyfe, freely.
• Isa 45:22-25 : 22 And therfore turne you vnto me, all ye endes of the earth, that ye may be saued: for I am God, and there is els none. 23 I sweare by my self, out of my mouth commeth the worde of righteousnesse, and that may no man turne: but all knees shall bowe vnto me, and all tongues shall sweare by my name, 24 Saying: veryly in the Lorde is my righteousnesse and strength, to hym shall men come: but all they that thinke scorne of him shalbe confounded. 25 And the whole seede of Israel shalbe iustified, and glory in the Lorde.
• Isa 48:17-18 : 17 And thus saith the Lorde God thy redeemer, the holy one of Israel: I am the Lorde thy God which teache thee profitable thynges, and leade thee the way that thou shouldest go. 18 O that thou hadst regarded my commaundementes, then had thy wealthynesse ben as the water streame, and thy ryghteousnesse as the waues flowyng in the sea:
• Ps 38:4 : 4 For my manyfolde wickednes is gone ouer my head: and like a sore burthen is to heauie for me to beare.
• Ps 116:7 : 7 Returne O my soule vnto thy rest: for God hath rewarded thee.
• 2 Thess 1:7 : 7 And to you whiche are troubled, reste with vs, in the reuelation of the Lorde Iesus from heauen, with the Angels of his power,
• Heb 4:1 : 1 Let vs feare therfore, lest at any tyme, by forsakyng the promise of entryng into his reste, any of you shoulde be defrauded.
• Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus saith the Lorde, Go into the streetes, consider and make inquisition for the olde way, and if it be the good and right way, then go therein, that ye may finde rest for your soules: but they say, we wyll not walke therin.
• Isa 28:12 : 12 If any man say vnto them, lo, this is the rest wherewith ye may ease hym that is weerie, this is the refreshing: they wyll not hearken.
• Eccl 1:8 : 8 All thinges are so harde to be knowen, that no man can expresse them: The eye is not satisfied with sight, the eare is not fylled with hearyng.
• Eccl 1:14 : 14 Thus haue I considered all these thynges that come to passe vnder the sunne: and lo, they are all but vanitie and vexation of mynde.
• Eccl 2:22-23 : 22 For what getteth a man of all the labour and trauayle of his mynde that he taketh vnder the sunne? 23 But heauinesse, sorowe, and disquietnesse all the dayes of his life? Insomuch that his heart can not rest in the nyght: This is also a vayne thyng.
• Isa 53:2-3 : 2 For he dyd growe before the Lorde like as a braunche, and as a roote in a drye grounde, he hath neither beautie nor fauour: when we loke vpon hym, there shalbe no fairenesse, we shall haue no lust vnto hym. 3 He is dispised and abhorred of men, he is such a man as hath good experience of sorowes and infirmities: We haue reckened hym so vile, that we hyd our faces from hym.
• Isa 61:3 : 3 That I might geue vnto them that mourne in Sion, that I might geue I say beautie in steede of asshes, ioyfull oyntment for sighing, pleasaunt rayment for an heauie minde, that they might be called trees of righteousnesse, a planting of the Lorde for hym to reioyce in.
• Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we be consumed through thy displeasure: and we are astonyed through thy wrathfull indignation. 8 Thou hast set our misdeedes before thee: and our sinnes wherof we be not priuie, in the lyght of thy countenaunce. 9 For all our dayes do passe in thine anger: we spende our yeres as in speaking a worde. 10 The dayes of our yeres be in all threescore yeres and tenne, and yf through strength of nature men come to foure score yeres: yet is their iolitie but labour and care, yea moreouer it passeth in haste from vs, and we flee from it.
• Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinnefull nation, a people laden with iniquitie, a seede of the wicked, corrupt children: they haue forsaken the Lorde, they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel vnto anger, they are gone backwarde.
• Isa 11:10 : 10 And in that day shall the gentiles enquire after the roote of Iesse, whiche shalbe set vp for a token vnto the people, and his rest shalbe glorious.
• Gen 3:17-19 : 17 Unto Adam he sayde: Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tree concernyng the whiche I commaunded thee, saying, thou shalt not eate of it, cursed is the grounde for thy sake, in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy lyfe. 18 Thorne also and thistle shall it bryng foorth to thee, and thou shalt eate the hearbe of the fielde. 19 In the sweatte of thy face shalt thou eate thy breade, tyll thou be turned agayne into the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou art, and into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.
• Rom 7:22-25 : 22 For I delite in the lawe of God, after the inwarde man: 23 But I see another lawe in my members, rebellyng agaynst the lawe of my mynde, and subduyng me vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am: Who shall deliuer me from the body of this death? 25 I thanke God through Iesus Christe our Lorde. So then, with the mynde I my selfe serue the lawe of God: but with the fleshe, the lawe of sinne.
• Ps 32:4 : 4 For thy hande is heauie vpon me day and night: and my moysture is like the drouth in sommer. Selah.
• Ps 94:13 : 13 That thou mayest geue hym patience in tyme of aduersitie: vntyll the pyt be digged vp for the vngodly.
• Job 14:1 : 1 Man that is borne of woman, hath but a short time to lyue, and is full of miserie.
• Acts 15:10 : 10 Nowe therfore, why tempt ye God, to put on the disciples neckes, the yoke which neither our fathers nor we were able to beare?
• Job 5:7 : 7 But man is borne vnto labour, like as the sparkes flee vp out of the hot coles,
• Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one man, no mo but himselfe alone, hauing neither childe nor brother, yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches: yet saith he not for whom do I take such trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life? This is also a vayne and miserable thyng.