Bible Verses About Children

and having laid on them his hands, he departed thence.

And he said to them, `Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep;

for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;

and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), is whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine,

and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother,

setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'

And he said to her, `Because of this word go; the demon hath gone forth out of thy daughter;'

and having come away to her house, she found the demon gone forth, and the daughter laid upon the couch.

And Jesus said to him, `If thou art able to believe! all things are possible to the one that is believing;'

and immediately the father of the child, having cried out, with tears said, `I believe, sir; be helping mine unbelief.'

Jesus having seen that a multitude doth run together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, `Spirit--dumb and deaf--I charge thee, come forth out of him, and no more thou mayest enter into him;'

and having cried, and rent him much, it came forth, and he became as dead, so that many said that he was dead,

but Jesus, having taken him by the hand, lifted him up, and he arose.

And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them,

`Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth not receive me, but Him who sent me.'

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them,

and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child--he may not enter into it;'

and having taken them in his arms, having put his hands upon them, he was blessing them.

And the Lord said, `To what, then, shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!

because he had an only daughter about twelve years old , and she was dying. And in his going away, the multitudes were thronging him,

and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any,

having come near behind, touched the fringe of his garment, and presently the issue of her blood stood.

And Jesus said, `Who is it that touched me?' and all denying, Peter and those with him said, `Master, the multitudes press thee, and throng thee , and thou dost say, Who is it that touched me!'