Mark 10:16. And taking them in his arms. Mark loves to tell of our Lord's gestures. Christ did more for the children than those who brought them asked, as He always does. The servants of such a Master should welcome children to His fold.

Laying his hands on them. ‘We have no definite account of any ordination of the Apostles by the laving on of Christ's hands; but we do read of a laying-on of hands upon children, and consequently of their ordination to the kingdom of heaven.' Lange.

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Old Testament