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Br. Jamie Nelson

Matthew 19:13-15
Psalm 16

In this gospel passage, parents bring their young children to be blessed by Jesus.

Initially, the disciples try to shoo the children away. Perhaps the gatekeeping disciples want to protect their teacher’s time and energy for meetings with people they deem more important. Conversations like the ones that Jesus has with a group of religious thought leaders and with a wealthy prospective disciple, the two events which bookend this story in the text.

However, Jesus stops the disciples, saying, “Let the children come to me and do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”[1]

What does it mean when Jesus says that the kingdom of heaven belongs to young children and to the people like them? Read More