{That he send forth labourers} (hop(9373) ekbal(8869) ergatas).
Jesus turns from the figure of the shepherdless sheep to the
harvest field ripe and ready for the reapers. The verb ekball(935c)
really means to drive out, to push out, to draw out with violence
or without. Prayer is the remedy offered by Jesus in this crisis
for a larger ministerial supply. How seldom do we hear prayers
for more preachers. Sometimes God literally has to push or force
a man into the ministry who resists his known duty.