and said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

Whoever then humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Then little children were brought to him for him to lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples scolded those who brought them.

Then, gently taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up.”

She answered, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

Again he says, “I will be confident in him,” and again, “Here I am, with the children God has given me.”

By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.

After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”

He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.”

After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”

But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.