'Babes' in the Bible
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
And they were bringing near also the babes, that he may touch them, and the disciples having seen did rebuke them,
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people;
this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,
that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,
Such persons are mere babes. But solid food is for adults--that is, for those who through constant practice have their spiritual faculties carefully trained to distinguish good from evil.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: