15 (A)[a]They brought unto him also babes that he should touch them. [b]And when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

16 [c]But Jesus [d]called them unto him, and said, Suffer the babes to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

17 [e]Verily I say unto you, whosoever receiveth not the kingdom of God as a babe, he shall not enter therein.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 18:15 The children were tender and young, in that they were brought, which appeareth more evidently in that, that they were infants, which is to be marked against them that are enemies to the baptizing of children.
  2. Luke 18:15 To judge or think of Christ after the reason of our flesh, is the cause of infinite corruptions.
  3. Luke 18:16 The children also of the faithful are comprehended in the free covenant of God.
  4. Luke 18:16 Them that carried the children, whom the disciples drove away.
  5. Luke 18:17 Childlike innocence is an ornament of Christians.

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