evidently have not understood Jesus’s earlier teaching about receiving children (cf. 9:46–48), so now their actions “betray their failure to grasp what Jesus’s enactment of the reign of God is doing to conventions of status and honor” (Carroll 2012, 361). The Lukan Jesus does not rebuke the disciples, as he does in the parallel passage in Mark 10:14, but rather he keeps the focus here on the children: So, Jesus called for them, saying, “Allow the children to come to me, and do not prevent them, for