Harvest (θερισμος). Late word for the older θερος, summer, harvest. The language in this verse is verbatim what we have in Mt 9:37…

The harvest truly is great.—See Note on Matthew 9:37. The verses that follow contain, as might have been expected from the analogous circu…

The seventy were very few compared with the many that were needed. There were many loiterers about then as there are now; but the labourers were fe…

St. Cyril of Alexandria: God had made known through the Prophets that the preaching of the Gospel of salvation was to embrace …

Although the harvest imagery in Scripture usually refers to God’s intervention in history through gathering his people together (cf.[Reference Matt…

The harvest is indeed abundant. I have explained this passage in Matthew 9;³² but it was proper to insert it again here, becaus…

Therefore he said to them
That is, the "Lord Jesus", as the Ethiopic version expresses it; he said to the seventy di…

Christ sent the seventy disciples, two and two, that they might strengthen and encourage one another. The ministry of the gospel calls people to re…