“And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,”
He took a little child whom he placed among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said to them — the child placed in the midst of the twelve is the object lesson for the greatness teaching. The child in first-century Mediterranean culture was not sentimentalized as in modern culture — children were dependents, low in social status, without power, property, or civic standing. The child represents the socially powerless, the ones who cannot confer status or advancement on those who serve them.
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