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“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
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And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
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that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
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If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
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“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
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“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
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The Father Revealed in the Son
At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
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The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.
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He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
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The number of those who ate was four thousand men, besides women and children.
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“Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?”
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“From others,” Peter answered. “Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him.
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And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
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Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
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The Little Children and Jesus
Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them.
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Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
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And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
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But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
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“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, “‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”
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“Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
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Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.
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“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.
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All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”
