And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
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Gill's Exposition
And they brought unto him also infants,.... As well as grown persons, that were sick, to be healed by him:
that he would touch them; in order, as some learned men think, to cure them of diseases…
Adam Clarke
They brought unto him also infants - On these verses the reader is requested to consult the notes on Mat 19:13 (note), Mat 19:14 (note), and on Mar 10:16 (note).
When a spiritual guide (a gooroo)…
This passage of story we had both in Matthew and Mark; it very fitly follows here after the story of the publican, as a confirmation of the truth which was to be illustrated by that parable, that…
Cambridge Bible
15-17. Jesus and the Children. A Lesson of Humility.
15. they brought unto him also infants Rather, their babes. It seems to have been a custom of Jewish mothers to carry their babes to eminent Rabbis…
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