'Little Child' in the Bible

"Why this confusion and weeping?" he said on entering. "The little child is not dead; she is asleep."

Then Jesus took a little child, and placed it in the middle of them. Folding it in his arms, he said to them:

"Any one who, for the sake of my Name, welcomes even a little child like this is welcoming me, and any one who welcomes me is welcoming not me, but him who sent me as his Messenger."

Some of the people were bringing little children to Jesus, for him to touch them; but the disciples found fault with those who had brought them.

When, however, Jesus saw this, he was indignant. "Let the little children come to me," he said, "do not hinder them; for it is to the childlike that the Kingdom of God belongs.