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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.”
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Jesus Blesses Little Children
People were bringing children to him in order that he might touch them, and the disciples spoke sternly to them.
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But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.
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And the disciples were perplexed at these words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
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Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the good news
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who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
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“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.
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There were seven brothers; the first married and, when he died, left no children,
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and the second married the widow and died, leaving no children, and the third likewise;
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none of the seven left children. Last of all the woman herself died.
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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,