Study Desk

So if you, even though you are bad, know how to give your children gifts that are good, how much more will your Father in heaven keep giving good things to those who keep asking him!

"A brother will betray his brother to death, and a father his child; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.

"Oh, what can I compare this generation with? They're like children sitting in the marketplaces, calling out to each other,

Those eating numbered about five thousand men, plus women and children.

Those eating numbered four thousand men, plus women and children.

and said, "Yes! I tell you that unless you change and become like little children, you won't even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

and since he couldn't pay, his master ordered that he, his wife, his children and all his possessions be sold to pay the debt.

Then children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray for them, but the talmidim rebuked the people bringing them.

However, Yeshua said, "Let the children come to me, don't stop them, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these."

Everyone who has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times more, and he will obtain eternal life.

But when the head cohanim and Torah-teachers saw the wonderful things he was doing, and the children crying out in the Temple, " Please deliver us! " to the Son of David, they were furious.

They said to him, "Do you hear what they're saying?" Yeshua replied, "Of course! Haven't you ever read, ‘From the mouth of children and infants you have prepared praise for yourself' ?"

"Rabbi, Moshe said, ‘If a man dies childless, his brother must marry his widow and have children to preserve the man's family line.'

There were seven brothers. The first one married and then died; and since he had no children, he left his widow to his brother.

"Yerushalayim! Yerushalayim! You kill the prophets! You stone those who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

All the people answered, "His blood is on us and on our children!"

He said, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's food and toss it to their pet dogs."

People were bringing children to him so that he might touch them, but the talmidim rebuked those people.

However, when Yeshua saw it, he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me, don't stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Yeshua said, "Yes! I tell you that there is no one who has left house, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News,