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Mar_10:13-16. See on Mat_19:13-15, who gives the narrative only by way of extract. Comp. Luk_18:15-17.
ἅψεται ] From the mere touch on the part of the holy man, who assuredly was also known as a friend of children, they hoped to derive blessing for their children. So too Luke. It is otherwise in Matthew, in whose account, instead of the touch, there is already introduced here the more definite laying on of hands, which was performed by Jesus at Mar_10:16.
Mar_10:14. ἠγανάκτησε ] “propter impedimentum amori suo a discipulis oblatum” (Bengel).
Mar_10:15 is also adopted by Luk_18:17, but not by the abbreviating Matthew. Whosoever shall not have received the kingdom of the Messiah as a child, i.e. in the moral condition, which resembles the innocence of childhood (comp. Mat_18:3); Theophylact appropriately says: τῶν ἔχοντων ἐξ ἀσκήσεως τὴν ἀκακίαν , ἣν τὰ παιδία ἔχουσιν ἀπὸ φύσεως .
In δέξηται the kingdom (which the coming Messiah establishes) is conceived as coming (Mar_9:1; Mat_6:10; Luk_17:20, al). It is erroneous to explain the βασιλ . τ . Θεοῦ as the preaching of the kingdom (Theophylact, Euthymius Zigabenus, Kuinoel, and many others).
Mar_10:16. ἐναγκαλ .] as at Mar_9:36.
κατηυλόγ .] only occurs in this place in the New Testament; it is stronger than the simple form, Plut. Amator. 4; Tob_11:1; Tob_11:17. It expresses here the earnestness of His interest. How much more did Christ do than was asked of Him!