Mark 10:13

Some people took their children to Jesus. They wanted him to put his hand on them, and pray for them. But Jesus' followers growled at the parents and tried to block them.

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In The King James Version

And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.

In Context

12And if a woman leaves her husband and marries another man, then she is sleeping with the wrong man and she is breaking God's law.” And you can read this story in Matthew 19:13-15 and in Luke 18:15-17

14Jesus got angry when he saw what they were doing and said, “No! Don't stop those children. Let them come to me. God's family is full of people like them.

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Cross References

Mark 9:38John, one of the followers, said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw a man using your name to send bad spirits out of people. He is not one of our group and so we told him to stop.”

Matthew Henry on Mark 10:2-13

The Doctrine of Divorce. 1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judæa by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. 2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? 4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of… Read the whole commentary →

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