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In Jesus’s illustrative comparison, a leader lays a heavy bundle on an ordinary worker’s shoulders.
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Matthew 23:4

Burdens Without Help

Jesus Warns the Leaders and Laments Jerusalem · Matthew 23

Story guide: The burden and withheld help illustrate the heavy demands Jesus condemns in the teachers.

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4They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on the shoulders of men, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with their finger.

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