Plentiful Harvest — Few Workers.

(Mat. 9:35-38; Mark 6:6; Luke 8:1-3).

The crowds of people that the Lord noticed in walking through the town, is likened by Him to flocks of sheep, wandering without a shepherd — an allegory that was especially understood in Palestine, a land of shepherds. The spiritual leaders of these people, are not true shepherds and teachers. They themselves are blind and not only do they not enlighten the people, they further corrupt them. “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few” (Mat. 9:37), a splendid representation, understood by all. The field that’s covered with ripe wheat, needs harvesting, but there are few reapers. The meaning of these words is this: there are a great number of people willing to enter into the Messiah’s Kingdom, and are already prepared for this, but there are few that are ready for the great task of teaching. “Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest” (Mat. 9:38); i.e. to ask Father-God to facilitate the preparation of new workers (that are not instructed in the Pharisee spirit), to preach on the coming of the Messiah’s Kingdom. During this travel, preaching through Galilee, the Lord was accompanied by a number of women, blessed with gifts by Him in one way or another and who, through a sense of gratitude, served Him with their personal resources. They were the ones that followed the Lord to Golgotha and formed that image of Myrrh-bearing Women, who are glorified by our Holy Church.