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An Urgent, Abundant Harvest
Commentators explain that Jesus uses the "harvest" metaphor to describe the vast number of people ready to hear the gospel. The Expositor's Bible Commentary clarifies this isn't just about a future judgment but applies to the "urgent missionary task of the present age." The spiritual need is immense, creating a great opportunity for fruitful labor.
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AT Robertson
On Luke 10:2
Harvest (θερισμος). Late word for the older θερος, summer, harvest. The language in this verse is verbatim what we have in Mt 9:37…
Charles Ellicott
On Luke 10:2
19th Century
Bishop
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…
Charles Spurgeon
On Luke 10:2
19th Century
Preacher
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…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Luke 10:2
Although the harvest imagery in Scripture usually refers to God’s intervention in history through gathering his people together (cf.[Reference Matt…
John Calvin
On Luke 10:2
16th Century
Theologian
The harvest is indeed abundant. I have explained this passage in Matthew 9;32 but it was proper to insert it again here, becaus…
John Gill
On Luke 10:2
17th Century
Pastor
Therefore he said to them
That is, the "Lord Jesus", as the Ethiopic version expresses it; he said to the seventy di…
Matthew Henry
On Luke 10:1–16
17th Century
Minister
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…