NOTES for Mat 11:20-30

The inhabitants of the towns where Jesus' signs and wonders had been shown did not believe in Him, while among His disciples were "infants" - simple, uneducated people, often with an "imperfect" past: the sick, the unclean, the desperate, the "poor in spirit." This brings us face to face with the question of knowing God and receiving true faith. It turns out that miracles play a very small role in the inner upheaval that the Gospel calls repentance. God can be known only when He reveals Himself: the Son reveals the Father, and the Father brings people to faith in the Son. This revelation is a kind of inner miracle, a sign invisible to others and often even to the person himself. It happens in the experience of rest that the Lord Jesus gives to those who "labor and are heavy laden," in an intuitive encounter with the One who is truly meek, when a person's life becomes discipleship under Christ and the acquiring of a humble heart.