Luke 18:15 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 18:15

Now people were even bringing their babies to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them. And when the disciples saw this, they rebuked those who brought them.

BSB

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ASV

And they were bringing unto him also their babes, that he should touch them: but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

KJV

And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

It may be thought strange by some that the disciples wished to prevent the little children from coming to our Lord, as it is said, when they saw it, they rebuked them. But we must understand in this either a mystery, or the effect of their love to Him. For they did it not from envy or harsh feeling towards the children, but they manifested a holy zeal in their Lord's service, that he might not be pressed by the crowds. Our own interest must be given up where an injury is threatened to God.

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

They brought unto him also infants - On these verses the reader is requested to consult the notes on Mat 19:13 (note), Mat 19:14 (note), and on Mar 10:16 (note). When a spiritual guide (a gooroo) visits his disciple, the latter takes his child to him for his blessing, forcing the head of the child down to the gooroo’s feet, who gives what is called his blessing in some such words as these, Live long! - Be learned! - Be rich!

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

The ignorance of the disciples does not stand alone. On few subjects, perhaps, shall we find such strange opinions in the churches, as on the subject of the souls of children . Some think that children ought to be baptized, as a matter of course; and that if they die unbaptized — they cannot be saved. Others think that children ought not to be baptized, but can give no satisfactory reason why they think so. Some think that all children are regenerate by virtue of their baptism.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Here, it is plain from our Lord's reply, that they thought the intrusion a useless one, as infants were not capable of receiving anything from Him. His ministrations were for grown people.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Προσέφερον	Prosepheron	They were bringing	G4374 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
αὐτῷ	autō	to Him	G846 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
βρέφη	brephē	infants	G1025 →
ἵνα	ina	that	G2443 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	them	G846 →
ἅπτηται·	haptētai	He may touch;	G681 →
ἰδόντες	idontes	having seen	G1492 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
μαθηταὶ	mathētai	disciples	G3101 →
ἐπετίμων	epetimōn	were rebuking	G2008 →
αὐτοῖς.	autois	them.	G846 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 9:54
When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”
leads to
- 2 Kings 1:10–14
  Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain…
- James 3:14–18
  But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
- James 1:19–20
  My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
Through
1 Samuel 1:24
Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him…
leads to
- Numbers 15:9–10
  present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil.
- Joshua 18:1
  Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,
- 1 Samuel 4:3–4
  When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the…
- Deuteronomy 12:5–6
  Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
- Deuteronomy 12:11

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Luke

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