Berean Standard Bible
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
King James Version
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
About this verse
"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." The invitation is to a person, not a program — no steps, no technique, just come. And buried in the middle is something found nowhere else in the Gospels: Jesus describing his own heart. "I am gentle and humble in heart." Of all the things he might have disclosed about his inner life, he chose the two qualities an exhausted person most needs to believe about whoever is in charge.
A yoke, in the language of first-century rabbis, meant a teacher's whole way of interpreting and living the law — you took a rabbi's yoke when you became his student. Jesus speaks to Galilean crowds carrying a heavy version: rules stacked on rules by teachers who, he said elsewhere, tied up burdens and lifted no finger to help. His counter-offer is not the removal of every yoke but a different one: "My yoke is easy" — well-fitting — "and My burden is light."
This is the text for burnout, including the religious kind. Notice the honest shape of the promise: a yoke is still equipment for work. The rest offered is not idleness but exchange — a load that fits, pulled alongside someone gentle.
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