“Suffer the little children” is a phrase from the King James Bible (Matthew 19:14) that has entered as a proverb into the English language. Jesus is simply telling us that we are not to hinder the little children from being brought to him. What Christian would disagree with that?
In the previous chapter Jesus issued a stern warning that anyone who caused “one of these little ones – those who believe in me – to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea” (Matthew 18:6).
Last week I looked at the horrific case of the editor and education ‘expert’ who has been found guilty of being a long term paedophile. Every sane human being, parent and Christian would be horrified at such abuse.
And yet the Bible warns us that there are sins of omission,…
