MARK 10:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.”
And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them — the physical action fulfills the verbal teaching: Jesus takes the children in his arms, places his hands on them, and blesses them. The embrace and the blessing are the enacted kingdom — the children who cannot achieve or merit anything receive the full blessing of the Son of God. The blessing placed on them is the blessing of the kingdom, given to the ones who receive it like children.
Church Fathers on Mark 10:16
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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