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So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking him!"

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you didn't want to!Matthew 23:37;">[xr]

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as his own life, he can't be my disciple.Deuteronomy 13:6; 33:9; Matthew 10:37; Romans 9:13; Revelation 12:11;">[xr]

Jesus, however, called for them and said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away. For the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.1 Corinthians 14:20; 1 Peter 2:2;">[xr]

JesusHe">[fn] said to them, "Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left his home, wife, brothers, parents, or children because of the kingdom of GodDeuteronomy 33:9;">[xr]

They will level you to the ground - you and your children within you. They will not leave one stone on another within you, because you didn't recognize the time when God came to help you."the time of your visitation">[fn]1 Kings 9:7-8; Daniel 9:24; Micah 3:12; Matthew 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 1:68,78; 21:6; 1 Peter 2:12;">[xr]

and asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the manthe brother">[fn] should marry the widow and have children for his brother.Deuteronomy 25:5;">[xr]

and the third married her. In the same way, all seven died and left no children.

But Jesus turned to them and said, "WomenDaughters">[fn] of Jerusalem, stop crying for me, but cry for yourselves and for your children.

For the days are surely coming when peoplethey">[fn] will say, 'How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'Matthew 24:19; Luke 21:23;">[xr]

However, to all who received him, to those believing in his name, he gave authority to become God's children,Isaiah 56:5; Romans 8:15; Galatians 3:26; 2 Peter 1:4; 1 John 3:1;">[xr]

They replied to him, "Our father is Abraham!" Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did.the works of Abraham">[fn]Matthew 3:9; John 3:33; Romans 2:28; 9:7; Galatians 3:7,29;">[xr]

You are doing your father's works."Isaiah 63:16; 64:8; Malachi 1:6;">[xr] They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.Isaiah 49:6; John 10:16; Ephesians 2:14-17; 1 John 2:2;">[xr]

As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.Luke 16:8; John 8:59; 11:54; Ephesians 5:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:5; 1 John 2:9-11;">[xr]

Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jews[fn] I now tell you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.'John 7:34; 8:21;">[xr]

Jesus said to them, "Children, you don't have any fish, do you?" They answered him, "No."Luke 24:41;">[xr]

For this promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are far away, whom the Lord our God may call to himself."Joel 2:28; Acts 3:25; 10:45; 14:27; Ephesians 2:13,17;">[xr]

For we live, move, and exist because of him, as some of your own poets have said: 'For we are his children, too.'Phainomena (5) of Aratus, a poet of Cicilian origin (3">[fn][fn][fn]Colossians 1:17; Titus 1:12; Hebrews 1:3;">[xr]

So if we are God's children, we shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by human imagination and skill.Isaiah 40:18;">[xr]