1. Revelation 2:24 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What function does "other" play here?

Revelation 2:24 (ESV)

24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.

The term “other” could make one think that Jesus is here contrasting his burden with Jezebel’s (where her burden would be the sickbed and the tribulation she and her followers would experience, Revelation 2:22). We need to note, though, what the council of elders wrote in their letter to the church in Antioch in Acts 15:28–29: “It has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden [same word!] than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols…and from sexual immorality” (same terms as Jesus used to describe Jezebel’s teaching in Revelation 2:20). While Jezebel contradicted this instruction, Jesus Christ reminded his congregation to remain with that instruction. For the Lord’s burdens are light (Matthew 11:30).