15People were also bringing babies to Jesus to have him touch them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them.


In Context

12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'

13 "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'

14 "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

15 People were also bringing babies to Jesus to have him touch them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them.

16 But Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

17 I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."

Luke 18:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:15And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when [his] disciples saw [it,] they rebuked them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:15And they brought unto him also infants, that he might touch them. Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:15And they were bringing unto him also their babes, that he should touch them: but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:15And they brought to him also infants that he might touch them, but the disciples when they saw it rebuked them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:15And they brought unto him also their babes, that he should touch them: but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:15And they brought to him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:15They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:15And they were bringing near also the babes, that he may touch them, and the disciples having seen did rebuke them,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:15And they brought to him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.