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37 [a](A)Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; 38 so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.”

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Footnotes

  1. 9:37–38 This Q saying (see Lk 10:2) is only imperfectly related to this context. It presupposes that only God (the master of the harvest) can take the initiative in sending out preachers of the gospel, whereas in Matthew’s setting it leads into Mt 10 where Jesus does so.

35 Do you not say, ‘In four months[a] the harvest will be here’? I tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:35 ‘In four months… ’: probably a proverb; cf. Mt 9:37–38.