MARK 10:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.”
People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who brought them — the children episode follows the divorce teaching in all three Synoptics, likely because the two topics belong together: marriage and its children, the covenant unit of family in the kingdom. The disciples rebuking those who bring children is the same protective instinct they showed when the blind men called out (Mark 10:48) and when the woman anointed Jesus (Mark 14:4–5) — management of Jesus' access that misreads his priorities.
Church Fathers on Mark 10:13
The wickedness of the Pharisees in tempting Christ, has been related above, and now is shewn the great faith of the multitude, who believed that Christ conferred a blessing on the children whom they brought to Him, by the mere laying on of His hands.
That is, if ye have not innocence and purity of mind like that of children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. Or else, we are ordered to receive the kingdom of God, that is, the doctrine of the Gospel, as a little child, because as a child, when he is taught, does not contradict his teachers, nor put together reasonings and words against them, but receives with faith what they teach, and obeys them with awe, so we also are to receive the word of the Lord with simple…
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