Mat 9:38 | JFB | STEP | 38. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest —the great Lord and Proprietor of all. Compare , "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 —"When He putteth forth His own sheep." (See on ).

Matthew 9:38

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).