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The Massacre of the Infants
When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the magi.
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“A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.”
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and do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
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“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
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so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.
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If you, then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
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Sibling will betray sibling to death and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,
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“But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,
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the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the kingdom; the weeds are the children of the evil one,
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And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
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He answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”
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Those who had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children.
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He said, “Yes, he does.” And when he came home, Jesus spoke of it first, asking, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tribute? From their children or from others?”
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When Peter said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the children are free.
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and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
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and, as he could not pay, the lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions and payment to be made.
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Jesus Blesses Little Children
Then children were being brought to him in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples spoke sternly to those who brought them,
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but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”
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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 name’s sake will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
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But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he did and heard the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became angry
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“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies childless, his brother shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.’
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The Lament over Jerusalem
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
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Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
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He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”
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But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”