Luke 18:16
But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come to me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
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Genesis 21:4And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,
Deuteronomy 29:11, 11Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water:
2 Chronicles 20:13And all Juda stood before the Lord with their little ones, and their wives, and their children.
Matthew 18:3And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
1 Corinthians 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife; and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband: otherwise your children should be unclean; but now they are holy.
1 Peter 2:2As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:
Matthew Henry on Luke 18:16-18
Christ's Attention to Children. 15 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them. 16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. This passage of story we had both in Matthew and Mark; it very fitly follows here after the story of the… Read the whole commentary →