Matthew 11:29

Jesus calls people to take His yoke and learn from Him, the gentle and humble Teacher. In submitting to Him they find rest for their souls.

Cross-references · 33

• Jer 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
• 1 Jn 2:6Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
• Phil 2:7–8but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.
• John 13:15I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.
• Luke 6:46–48Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
• Matt 7:24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
• John 15:10–14If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
• 1 Pet 2:21–23For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:
• Heb 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
• Phil 2:5Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
• Matt 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
• 2 Cor 10:1Now by the mildness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am humble when face to face with you, but bold when away.
• Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• Num 12:3Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.
• Isa 42:1–4“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
• Luke 10:39–42She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to His message.
• Heb 4:3–11Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
• Matt 21:5“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
• Matt 11:27–28All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
• 2 Cor 10:5We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
• 1 Th 4:2For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
• Matt 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
• John 13:17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
• 2 Th 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
• 1 Cor 9:21To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.
• Acts 7:37This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
• Acts 3:22–23For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
• Luke 8:35So the people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man whom the demons had left, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
• John 14:21–24Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
• Eph 4:20–21But this is not the way you came to know Christ.
• Ps 131:1A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.
• Matt 12:19–20He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear His voice in the streets.
• Luke 9:51–56As the day of His ascension approached, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.

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