²⁸ “Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.^(A)

³¹ He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a remote place and rest for a while.” For many people were coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.

¹¹ So they were each given a white robe, and they were told to rest a little while longer until the number would be completed of their fellow servants and their brothers and sisters, who were going to be killed just as they had been.

¹³ Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”^(A)

“Yes,” says the Spirit, “so they will rest from their labors, since their works follow them.”