Luke 18:15

And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them. AND THEY BROUGHT UNTO HIM ALSO INFANTS, [ ta (G3588) brefee (G1025)]. This shows that some, at least, of those called "little" or "young children" in Matthew 19:13, and Mark 10:13, were literally "babes." THAT HE WOULD TOUCH THEM - or, as more fully given in Matthew, "that He should put his hands on them and pray," that is, invoke a blessing on them (Mark 10:16); according to venerable custom ...

15-17 None are too little, too young, to be brought to Christ, who knows how to show kindness to those not capable of doing service to him. It is the mind of Christ, that little children should be brought to him. The promise is to us, and to our seed; therefore He will bid them welcome to him with us. And we must receive his kingdom as children, not by purchase, and must call it our Father's gift....

Verse Luke 18:15. _THEY BROUGHT UNTO HIM ALSO INFANTS_] On these verses the reader is requested to consult the notes on Matthew 19:13; Matthew 19:14, and on Mark 10:16. 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!_ __...

See the notes at Matthew 19:13....

EXPOSITION LUKE 18:1 _The Lord speaks the two parables on prayer_—_the importunate widow, and the Pharisee and publican._ LUKE 18:1 AND HE SPAKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM TO THIS END, THAT MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, AND NOT TO FAINT. The formnla ἕλεγε δὲ καί, literally, "and he spake also," calls attention to the fact that the parable-teaching immediately to follow was a continuation of what had preceded. Indeed, the connection between the first of the two parables, which urges restless continued prayer, and the picture which the Lord had just drawn of men's state of utter forgetfulness of God, is obvious. "The Son of man has been rejected; he has gone from view; the masses are plunged in gross worldliness; men of God are

AND THEY BROUGHT UNTO HIM ALSO INFANTS,.... As well as grown persons, that were sick, to be healed by him: THAT HE WOULD TOUCH THEM; in order, as some learned men think, to cure them of diseases that attended them; for one of the ways by which Christ healed persons, was by touching them; nor do we read of his touching in common for any other purpose, or of persons desiring him to touch them, or theirs, but for this end; in Matthew 19:13 it is read, "that he should put his hands on them"; and so the Arabic and Persic versions here read, in order to pray over them, and bless them: but neither in one place, nor the other, is any mention of their baptism, or of their being brought for such a purpose; nor can it be concluded from hence; BUT WHEN [HIS] DISCIPLES SAW [IT], THEY REBUKED THEM; the persons that brought the infants;...

Luke 18:1. _And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;_ Especially, not to faint in prayer, not to become disheartened, or weary, even if their prayers should, for a long time, remain unanswered. Luke 18:2. _Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: and there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary._ He would not have interested himself in her case simply because she was a poor widow, he had no bowels of compassion for her; nor would it have concerned him at all that her adversary had wronged her. He did not trouble to discharge the duties appertaining to his office. No fear of God and no respect for public opinion, affected him at all....

CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The Unjust Judge and the Avenging of His Elect. (Luke 18:1)_ 2. The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican. (Luke 18:9) 3. The Little Children and the Required Lowliness. (Luke 18:15) 4. The Rich Young Ruler. (Luke 18:18) 5. Rewards Promised. (Luke 18:28) 6. The Renewed Prediction of His Suffering, Death and Resurrection. (Luke 18:31) 7. The Blind Man near Jericho Healed. ...

JESUS BLESSES THE CHILDREN (Mark 10:13 *, Matthew 19:13 *). Lk. makes the children babes....

UNWEARIED IN PRAYER (Luke 18:1-8)...