Section 99

Section 99
BLESSING CHILDREN
CONCERNING CHILDLIKENESS
 (In Peræa)
MATT. 19:13-15
MARK 10:13-16
LUKE 18: 15-17

These verses frame my understanding of God's justice and the value He places on children.  Keeping the principle simple, if the Son of Man has time for children, we should too.

"These were babes whom the mothers carried in their arms, and who were too young to understand the meaning and importance of the act of Christ in blessing them. It was a custom to take infants to the synagogues, that they might receive the prayers and blessings of the rabbis, or holy men. For this reason they were brought to Christ as a holy and revered Teacher." -Pulpit Commentary

If this is accurate, then it reminds me of a baby dedication and is different than my mental image of children ages 3-10 running up to him.

From this passage has been derived a cogent argument for infant baptism, because Christ herein showed, not only that tender age and immaturity of reason put no obstacle in the way of his blessing, but that children were the standard by which fitness for his kingdom was to be tested. -Pulpit Commentary

For of such is the kingdom of heaven. They who would enter Christ’s kingdom must be pure, simple, obedient, as little children (comp. Mat_18:3). That is why he says, "of such," not "of these," intimating that it is not to the age, but to the disposition and character, that he refers.-Pulpit Commentary