Luke 18:16
and Jesus having called them near, said, “Permit the little children to come to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the Kingdom of God;
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Genesis 21:4and Abraham circumcises his son Isaac, [being] a son of eight days, as God has commanded him.
Deuteronomy 29:11your infants, your wives, and your sojourner who [is] in the midst of your camps, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water,
2 Chronicles 20:13And all Judah is standing before YHWH, also their infants, their wives, and their sons.
Matthew 18:3and said, “Truly I say to you, if you may not be turned and become as the children, you may not enter into the kingdom of the heavens;
1 Corinthians 7:14for the unbelieving husband has been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
1 Peter 2:2as newborn babies, desire the reasonable, unspoiled milk, so that you may grow up to 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 →