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Luke 18:15-17
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Little Children Brought to Jesus
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Now they were bringing even [their] babies to him so that he could touch them. But [when] the disciples saw [it], they rebuked them.
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But Jesus called them to himself, saying, "Allow the children to come to me, and do not forbid them, {for to such belongs} the kingdom of God.
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Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it."
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[a].
*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
[b].
*Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal
[c].
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
[d].
Literally "for of such is"
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