YOKE — the wooden crossbar laid across a paired team's necks so two animals pull one load together; by metaphor, in both Greek and the rabbinic idiom of Jesus' own day ('the yoke of the Torah,' 'the yoke of the kingdom'), a body of teaching or obligation TAKEN ON. ⚠ So 'take my yoke' (11:29) pictures not burden alone — every yoke is a burden — but DISCIPLESHIP itself: the word used for a rabbi's teaching, offered here as replacing whatever yoke the hearer already carries. Paul uses it once more of marriage to an unbeliever ('unequally yoked,' 2 Corinthians 6:14, not yet on these pages) — the same image of two pulling one load, mismatched. → first discussed at Matt 11:29