Luke 18:16
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.
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Gill's Exposition
But Jesus called them unto him,.... Not the disciples, as the Ethiopic version reads, nor the persons that brought the children, but the children themselves; for the antecedent to the relative "them",…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
called them St Mark adds that Jesus was much displeased with the officious interference of the disciples who so little understood His tenderness.
Suffer little children Rather, the little…
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