William Barclay on carrying the burdens of others: “There is an old story which tells how a man came upon a little boy carrying a still smaller boy, who was lame, upon his back. ‘That’s a heavy burden for you to carry,’ said the man. ‘That’s not a burden,’ came the answer. ‘That’s my wee brother.’ The burden which is given in love and carried in love is always light” (William Barclay, The Gospel of Matthew, 3rd ed., The New Daily Study Bible [Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 2001] 21, Logos).
