This portrait I just painted reminds me of the verse "But Jesus said, Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven." (Matt 19:14)* The day Jesus rebuked his disciples with these words, they were in the process of turning the parents with young children away. The disciples may have assumed that infants and young children would distract from Jesus' teaching or perhaps they thought that these little ones were not as important as the adults who had gathered to hear him speak. In any case, they didn't understand the heart of God for children, nor the child-like faith of which Jesus would explain holds an important truth about eternal life. Matthew 19:13 sets the scene - "Then there were brought unto him little children, that he might put his hands on them, a...
Visual Musings on Biblical Themes