Blessing the Children

¹⁵ People^(A) were bringing infants to him so that he might touch them, but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. ¹⁶ Jesus, however, invited them: “Let the little children come to me,^(B) and don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ¹⁷ Truly I tell you,^(C) whoever does not receive^(D) the kingdom of God like a little child^(E) will never enter it.”