Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 10:2

"And he said unto them, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest." — Luke 10:2 (ASV)

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 few. There were preachers of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and they were not worth a penny a hundred; but the true labourers, who watched for souls, and preached Christ with all their hearts, were very few.

It is the same today; and therefore we are to pray for more labourers. A good minister always desires to see more good ministers.

In a trade, every tradesman would be glad if those of the same trade as himself would move to another parish; but in the profession of a Christian minister, the more the merrier.

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