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Mark 9:33-37

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Parallel passages: Matthew 18:1-5; Luke 9:46-48.

The lesson of humility.

The exquisite lesson of humility taught in the remainder of this section may be appropriately taken up in connection with the section of next chapter, where the lovely comparison of childhood is again employed.—J.J.G.

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