Mark 10:13–16: Jesus Welcomes the Little Children
The disciples treated children as an interruption, and Jesus was moved with indignation at the exclusion. He called the children to himself, blessed them, and made their lowly dependence the picture of how anyone enters the Kingdom.
Jesus Welcomes the Little Children in Mark 10
Jesus does not merely tolerate the children brought to him; he is angry when his disciples turn them back and then blesses them in his arms. The moment becomes a lesson: the Kingdom is received, not earned, with the trust of a child.