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14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant,
16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?”
And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,
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‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise’?
I don't remember some much about children jumping out at me in Matthew before. A great reminder how much God loves children and what that means to us.
Matthew 21
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Not lopped off but removed at the root. So important.