2 Baruch 48:19
Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
Pseudepigrapha
17 What therefore is our strength that we should bear Your wrath Or what are we that we should endure Your judgement? 18 Protect us in Your compassion, And in Your mercy help us. 19 Look at the little ones that are subject to You, And save all that draw near to You: And do not destroy the hope of our people, And do not cut short the times of our aid. 20 For this is the nation which You have chosen, And these are the people, to whom You find no equal. 21 But I will speak now before You, And I will say as my heart thinks.
Date: 70-100 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Matthew 10:42
New Testament
40 “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. 41 Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Whoever receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. 42 And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, I tell you the truth, he will never lose his reward.”
Date: 70-90 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The linking of the eunuchs to the kingdom of heaven indicates the eschatological ideal of the single and celibate state enacted now since that is the state of all disciples in the kingdom of God. The Gospels also preserve a series of Jesus’s sayings which hold up children as models for the kingdom (Mark 9:35–37, 42, 10:13–16; Matthew 10:42, 18:2–5, 19:13–15; Luke 9:47–48, 17:2, 18:15–17), for children modeled the proper acceptance of the Endzeit at the heart of Jesus' teachings ..."
Martens, John W.
"But From the Beginning it was Not So": The Jewish Apocalyptic Context of Jesus' Teaching on Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage
(pp. 5-33) Journal of Moral Theology, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2021
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