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13 Jesus Receives Little Children.[a] Then people brought children to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them,

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  1. Matthew 19:13 The Gospel has retained this spontaneous and true gesture because it is also a sign. To enter into the kingdom, i.e., into intimacy with God, one must be free of all pretense and become poor and little for humans are always weak and needy before God.