To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

Weaned

But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.

At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant,

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it."

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation--

General references

Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

And he said, "Are you also still without understanding?

And he said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,