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- Jesus uses a figure of speech about harvesting to tell his disciples how they should respond to the needs of the crowds in the previous section.
- The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few - This metaphor compares the great number of people who will believe in God and be added to his kingdom to food growing in a field, and those who tell others about God to the laborers. The point of the metaphor is that there are too few people to tell the many people about God. (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)
- harvest - "collection of ripe food"
- laborers - "workers"
- pray to the Lord of the harvest - "pray to the Lord. He is in charge of the harvest."