“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,

And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.”

And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.

And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”

But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”

And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.

And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them,

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

Let the Children Come to Me

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

But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”

And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.

And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.