Bible Verses About Children

Then, after laying his hands on them, he went on his way.

he said to them, "you have made a fine art of departing from God's command in order to keep your tradition!

For Moshe said, `Honor your father and your mother,' and `Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'

But you say, `If someone says to his father or mother, "I have promised as a korban" ' " (that is, as a gift to God) " ` "what I might have used to help you," '

then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

Thus, with your tradition which you had handed down to you, you nullify the Word of God! And you do other things like this."

Then he said to her, "For such an answer you may go on home; the demon has left your daughter."

She went back home and found the child lying on the couch, the demon gone.

Yeshua said to him, "What do you mean, `if you can'? Everything is possible to someone who has trust!"

Instantly the father of the child exclaimed, "I do trust -- help my lack of trust!"

When Yeshua saw that the crowd was closing in on them, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit! I command you: come out of him, and never go back into him again!"

Shrieking and throwing the boy into a violent fit, it came out. The boy lay there like a corpse, so that most of the people said he was dead.

But Yeshua took him by the hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.

He took a child and stood him among them. Then he put his arms around him and said to them,

"Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the One who sent me."

People were bringing children to him so that he might touch them, but the talmidim rebuked those people.

However, when Yeshua saw it, he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me, don't stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Yes! I tell you, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child will not enter it!"

And he took them in his arms, laid his hands on them, and made a b'rakhah over them.

"Therefore," said the Lord, "how can I describe the people of this generation? What are they like?

They are like children sitting in the marketplaces, calling to one another, `We made happy music, but you wouldn't dance! We made sad music, but you wouldn't cry!'

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old; and she was dying. As he went, with the crowds on every side virtually choking him,

a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone,

came up behind him and touched the tzitzit on his robe; instantly her hemorrhaging stopped.

Yeshua asked, "Who touched me?" When they all denied doing it, Kefa said, "Rabbi! The crowds are hemming you in and jostling you!"