Luke 18:17
I tell you assuredly, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God the way a little child does will by no means enter it.”
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
18A certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Cross References
Matthew 18:3and said: “Assuredly I say to you, unless you change and become like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of the heavens.
1 Peter 1:14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts as in your ignorance,
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 →