18:3 How do adults become as little children so they can enter the Kingdom of Heaven?

This is how Jesus characterizes true conversion.

He pictures it as the simple, helpless, trusting dependence of those who have no resources of their own, such as little children (cp Mt 18:1-5; Mk 9:33-37; 10:13-16; Lk 9:46-48).

Jesus teaches here that greatness in the kingdom is based upon childlike humility of spirit (cp Psa 37:11; Mt 5:5). See also comments on Mt 20:20-28.

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