“... Luke follows the [...] account of Jesus' blessing of the little children fairly closely (cf. Matt 19:13-15). However, Luke eliminates the details of Jesus' anger and affection (see p. 95). Moreover, he improves at times the Greek style, using brephe, "babies, infants," in v. 15a, instead of the [...] paidia, "children" (10:13), which he retains, however, in v. 16b. [...] Another form of the story is preserved in Gos. of Thom. § 22: "[...] saw children being nursed. He said to his disciples, 'These children who are being nursed are like those who enter the kingdom.' They said to him, 'If we become children, shall we enter the kingdom?' Jesus said to them, 'When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one so that the male not be male or the female female, and when you put eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, and an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom].'" This form seems to be remotely inspired by the Synoptic saying of Jesus about children and the kingdom, but it is an elaborate reworking to affirm gnostic teaching about the primordial unit. ...”