Remember, this is Matthew 5. If you read straight through to Matthew 11, you would see Jesus’s point. He was setting them up to understand a truth that would set them free. “Come to me,” he says in Matthew 11:28. “Are you weary? Are you carrying a heavy burden?” That was everyone listening, you realize. “Come to me, and I will give you rest. My yoke is easy; my burden is light.”
